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Ivan Popov wrote: [..] > Authentication is outside of this role and can be done by external means > like Kerberos. > In contrast to the above, ACLs are essential for granting accessrights. > They are per-object (per directory in Coda case) and aremaintained where all the > file metainformation is kept, in the fileserver's RVM. [..] Doh! Thanks for your answer it was a real eye opener.. maybe I shouldn't look at the trees and focus on the forrest :) Of course you're right; .. there isn't even a difference in this case between coda and local filesystems with respect to where authentication and file permission storage take place. It took me a while to realize that I already have what I was looking for in the first place. >Hope that helps. > > It did :) regards, SvenReceived on 2004-01-13 08:56:31