[lizknope]

I still miss AFS ACLs.

For the last 25 years at 8 different jobs everything is over NFS. Every company uses Unix groups and some have used groups to manage project access. Sometimes it can take 3 days to get added to a group.

When I started college in 1993 we learned in the "Intro to Computing Environment" class our first semester how to create ACL groups.

I have a degree in computer engineering so I understand binary, octal, hexadecimal, but chmod 755 or 644 or whatever is not exactly intuitive.

AFS permissions are much easier to understand. When we had a group project we would all make a directory for that project and only give access to the other people in our group. We could give them read or write and everything worked great.

I know NFSv4 has ACL support but I've never seen it actually used anywhere.