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If I wanted Windows perms I would have installed Windows
Windows perms are pretty locked down though. Sometimes I can't delete my own files because I need permission from "Administrator" :/
You can actually use Windows-style permissions (ACLs) on Linux via
setfacl.If only...
Those are POSIX acls, and they suck
We could have had NFSv4 ACL, of which windows ACLs are a subset. In fact, every other unix os did... Except for Linux, they decided it didn't fit well to Linux. And so we are stuck with UGO permissions, and posix ACLs.
Good catch - I should have said that it's closer to Windows-style ACLs rather than implying that it's actually the same.
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