<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Chuck, prepare yourself for disappointment, because *nothing* in life is _zero_ maintenance. That goes double for technology, regardless of which operating system you choose. Yes, including Windows. ACL's will always require some maintenance, especially for what you've described. Even Hondas, the most reliable cars on the planet, require some maintenance. --TP <div class="moz-signature">_______________________________ Do you <a href="http://www.gnu.org">GNU</a>? <a href="http://www.cmosnetworks.com">Microsoft Free since 2003</a>--the ultimate antivirus protection! </div> Chuck Kollars wrote: <blockquote cite="mid17532.48085.qm@web65601.mail.ac4.yahoo.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> > ... I'm curious as to how managing ACLs would be > any different ... It seems my experience is in danger of being completely misunderstood, so please permit me to try once more to state my point: I needed --and now have-- a system that requires _zero_ maintenance of permissions/groups/ACLs after the system was launched, so it's irrelevant whether such maintenance would be easy or hard because it's not done at all. The way I set up a working system within the constraint of requiring zero maintenance of permissions after launch was with Posix ACLs (in fact I don't know how to do it another way, and I even suspect that just vanilla *nix permissions are insufficient for detailed student/teacher file storage within this constraint). If you don't have the requirement/constraint of zero maintenance of permissions after launch, my experience probably doesn't apply to your situation. thanks! -Chuck Kollars __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mail.yahoo.com">http://mail.yahoo.com</a> _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.k12os.org"><http://www.k12os.org></a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>