Pádraig Brady wrote:
> So as we see there are lots of "additional attributes"
> with dedicated programs to manipulate them.
> What's the big advantage of merging with ls and chmod,
> over the current situation of separate utilities?
In [1] I'm arguing:
* A feature that has impact on security, and that its users don't
understand, is a major security problem it itself. If it's too
easy to misunderstand what effect a specific ACL has, it will cause
unintended ACLs to be set.
* Hence efforts should be made that enable the users to understand
the ACLs that they may set or have set.
* Most users have no experience with {get,set}facl, {get,set}fattr,
{ls,ch}attr, only with 'ls' and 'chmod'. Therefore it will be
easier for them to learn another 'ls' option that to remember three(!)
other programs getfacl, getfattr, lsattr.
Bruno
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2023-01/msg00086.html
