[Info-vax] Default protection question

[smithfarm]

Jan-Erik:

Thanks for your defense of ACLs. I agree they are very important and I 
will study them, just later . . . after I finish my first complete 
reading of the User's Manual.


Phillip:

>> while its ACL is taken from the parent
>> directory.
>
> If there is one.

?? Can a file be created without being associated with a directory? 
Here, I understand "parent directory" (of a file) to be the directory 
where the file resides.

> However, if a FILE has an ACL, and you create a higher version of the
> file, then IIRC the ACL is inherited from the lower version of the file.

Good point. The manual was talking only about newly-created files.

> A suggestion for accounts.

Good suggestion - so far I only have the one with all the privs 
authorized, which I turn on and off as necessary. Good idea to have 
another one with just READALL.

You can't readily use the system account for normal work, since it 
doesn't really have a home directory (like root does on Unix).