Multiple user groups on a file

nphilipp at redhat.com nphilipp at redhat.com
Wed Feb 25 16:30:30 UTC 2004


Quoting Rui Miguel Seabra <rms at 1407.org>:

> On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 16:08 +0100, Linux4life wrote:
> > is it possible have several different groups with different privileges
> 
> > on a file on ext3 filesystem?
> 
> Only if you have extended acls like those brought by SELinux, which
> Fedora Core 2 will include.

You don't need SELinux for extattrs/ACLs, it's vice versa -- SELinux uses
extattrs to label files.

Nils
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