ACL lists (was Re: file attributes)

[Scott Schwartz]

In article <PD.91Jun27110637 at powys.x.co.uk> pd at x.co.uk (Paul Davey) writes:
| ACLs are very good for security ...  but in my experience they are
| too much trouble to administer on a day to day level for most files.

I had just the opposite experience with Primos, where objects use the
ACL of the directory they are in unless you specifically set one.
File protections were no trouble at all -- much easier than in Unix,
especially if you were sharing things.