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USENIX 2003 Annual Technical Conference, FREENIX Track — Abstract
Pp. 259-272 of the Proceedings

POSIX Access Control Lists on Linux

Andreas Grünbacher, SuSE Labs

Abstract

This paper discusses file system Access Control Lists as implemented in several UNIX-like operating systems. After recapitulating the concepts of these Access Control Lists that never formally became a POSIX standard, we focus on the different aspects of implementation and use on Linux.
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