Unlike draft POSIX ACLs, NFSv4 ACLs are defined by an actually published standard, as part of the Network File System. NFSv4 ACLs are much more powerful than POSIX draft ACLs. ACLs are usually stored in the extended attributes of a file on these systems. Linux since 2.5.46 or November 2002, BSD, or Solaris) support POSIX.1e ACLs (not necessarily draft 17). Most of the Unix and Unix-like operating systems (e.g. As of December 2019, no live sources of the draft could be found on the Internet, but it can still be found in the Internet Archive. The POSIX.1e/POSIX.2c drafts were withdrawn in 1997 due to participants losing interest for funding the project and turning to more powerful alternatives such as NFSv4 ACL. POSIX 1003.1e/1003.2c working group made an effort to standardize ACLs, resulting in what is now known as 'POSIX.1e ACL' or simply 'POSIX ACL'. In the 1990s the ACL and RBAC models were extensively tested and used to administer file permissions. PRIMOS featured ACLs at least as early as 1984. One of the first operating systems to provide filesystem ACLs was Multics. In some implementations, an ACE can control whether or not a user, or group of users, may alter the ACL on an object.

The privileges or permissions determine specific access rights, such as whether a user can read from, write to, or execute an object. Each accessible object contains an identifier to its ACL. These entries are known as access-control entries (ACEs) in the Microsoft Windows NT, OpenVMS, and Unix-like operating systems such as Linux, macOS, and Solaris. Filesystem ACLs Ī filesystem ACL is a data structure (usually a table) containing entries that specify individual user or group rights to specific system objects such as programs, processes, or files.

Many kinds of operating systems implement ACLs or have a historical implementation the first implementation of ACLs was in the filesystem of Multics in 1965.

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