“The standard Unix permissions scheme works fine if you have simple needs, but juggling groups and users can grow unwieldy very quickly. FreeBSD’s Access Control Lists give you more control over who can access files and directories. Dru Lavigne explains how to understand and use them.”
Particularly in Gnome – Or is it too complex for mere Gnome users?
Kinda a weird question. The Linux kernel is not packaged as a complete operating system, so it it is up to use the user to enable ACL’s on your filesystem, if it supports it, or find a distribution kernel that enables them.
ACL’s can be enabled on ext3, for awhile, and reiserfs just got ACL support. (ACL = POSIX extended attributes)
From article:
On my system, I wanted to enable ACLs only for users, so I configured only the /usr filesystem.
/usr stands in Unix System Resources location; or what?
Home directories are in /usr/home. I think that is what Dru was getting at.
Get to know the system before making witty comments… this is not Linux.
He is asking what /usr is, whether it is Unix System Resources or “what”. Have you helped him understand? (o;
To actually [attempt] to answer the question, /usr is a standard section of a Unix or unix-like file system tree structure. It has the home directories of the users (which is where it’s name comes from) along with commonly used programs, libraries of executable code like Windows .dll files and other system resources and files like icons, terminal and printer interface descriptions, and program resources to help run or understand installed applications like XWindows, emacs or the C compiler, that may be needed once the system has booted up and is ready for use by one or more computer users.
So thinking of it as Unix System Resources isn’t too far off, but the system depends more on /bin /boot /etc /sbin /libexec and /mnt (where your disks are “attached” to the file system) for the most essential resources needed to boot up and enable “single user”, also known as system maintenance, mode where problems can be fixed before a multi-user state is initiated.
Hope this helps, but it is just a few relatively abstract points in a sea of information. You may want to research this further at http://www.freebsd.org
Home directories are in /usr/home. I think that is what Dru was getting at.
The home directories are most of the time a sub-directory or a branch of the root (“/”),unless you have made a separate partition “/home”.
*Nice article*,doesn’t the FreeBSD website describe MAC (mandatory access controls) aswell?:-)
According to man hier (for freebsd)…
/usr/ Contains the majority of user utilities and applications.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier&apropos=0&sektion=0&m…