Dustin, I've filed https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/MODULES-962 for working with POSIX.
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell <[email protected]>wrote: > This is an exciting and deep conversation, and very relevant to > Mozilla's interests, as we've been struggling with the narrow pinhole > of permissions that is mode. > > The general concept that I would like to emphasize is that the puppet > language has facilities for abstraction, and that can make > conversations about conciseness of expression moot. If the > fundamental type implementations are very granular (e.g., security > descriptors and ACEs), the module itself can provide higher-level > abstractions over those types for common uses, while allowing users to > use the types directly for the more unusual cases. > > As regards the ability to specify ACEs for a particular path in > different places: this reminds me of issues with group membership in > POSIX, where it's difficult to add two different users, defined in > different modules, to the same group. That's an unfortunate > limitation that's difficult to work around with puppet abstractions, > and it'd be great if this module didn't have similar issues. > > Dustin > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/CAJtE5vQJvPnuCOts%2BMRm%3DzJkSiJ7X%2BO-TrvBOboq1X25H1qaRA%40mail.gmail.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Rob Reynolds Developer, Puppet Labs *Join us at **PuppetConf 2014 <http://puppetconf.com>**, September 23-24 in San Francisco* *Register by May 30th to take advantage of the Early Adopter discount <http://links.puppetlabs.com/puppetconf-early-adopter> **--**save $349!* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/CAMJiBK6ODw-%2BdD4%2BbqUHNn8L%3DB98nzf2AtzNpAE8yO%3DhvXJ15A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
