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Where does the file owner on Windows matter, seeing that there are ACLs?

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Mar 15, 20261996 views
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Coming from a Linux background, I'm used to a file having an owner, and a owning group. Access permissions can be set separately for owner, group, and others, and that's it. Now on (NT-based) Windows, it's a bit different, because Windows uses ACLs. That means instead of having three lists of permi…

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First of all, Linux does have ACLs – POSIX ACLs, which allow setting the permission bits for any number of users and groups. (Patches for RichACL, ACLs very similar to NFSv4 and WinNT, have been submitted repeatedly, but not merged yet.) Ownership c…

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