[NTLUG:Discuss] Samba, ACL - permissions

[Greg Edwards]

Jerome Haltom wrote:
>>Beyond basic grouping of organizational units like departments or teams I 
>>wouldn't try using groups.
>>
>>For those kinds of numbers you'll want to use a formal file management 
>>(checkout/checkin) system to insure that changes are not lost from 
>>concurrent updates.
> 
> 
> This sounds completely off-base. I don't understand why you would want
> to use a source control system for a simple large file share. NFS was
> designed for this stuff, as was CIFS on Windows. It is the reason ACLs
> and group membership exist.
> 
> It's also sounds completely non-orthogonal. How would a source control
> system deal with group membership and directory permissions?
> 
> Unless the original post is talking about controlling access to source
> code. In which case I missed that.
> 

The question started out about permissions for a few users.  The question 
then was asked about possibly thousands of users.

My suggestion about some sort of file (or document) control mechanism 
(vault) is related to content integrity.  File system access cannot 
prevent multiple users from writing changes over top of each other.  If 
content is important enough to need to control write access, then it's 
important enough to need to insure integrity.  Source code is not the only 
file content that needs integrity assurance.

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Greg Edwards
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