Re: Repository ACL's

Greg Stein wrote:

>On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 11:06:25AM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
>
>>Daniel Patterson <danpat@adaptiveinternational.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>
>>> I had a brief look back through the archives, and it seems that
>>> permissions seem to have been "put off". I may or may not get some
>>> time to implement something along these lines, depending on the
>>> time it might take to implement.
>>>
>>> Has anyone put any thought into this kind of feature?
>>>
>>>
>>Not yet, AFAIK. We've all acknowledged that it's a really hard
>>problem (I know it gives Branko a headache!), and that the design
>>discussion has been deferred to post-1.0.
>>
>>
>
>Justin Erenkrantz has done some thinking and checked it in. It's at
>trunk/notes/webdav-acl-notes
>
>

Yes, but note that the assumption there is that ACL support would only
be necessary for ra_dav. I don't agree. In fact, the same reasoning that
made us thecide that locking has to be implemented in the FS, not in a
server layer, applies to ACLs.

-- 
Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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