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