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Re:History of Xenix – Microsoft's Forgotten Unix-Based Opera... by digi_owl on Saturday October 08, 2016 @02:17AM (#12665900)
> Everything has full ACL support.

Got bitten by that once when i thought i could just copy the user dir between Windows installs and discovered that the registry had its own ACL on top of the FS ACL...

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Re:History of Xenix – Microsoft's Forgotten Unix-Based Opera... by nickpsecurity on Saturday October 08, 2016 @11:18AM (#12667215)
I was having a similar problem reinstalling Ubuntu last night. I couldnt copy files to external HD over permissions. Re-ran file manager with sudo. As root, I still couldnt do it. So I changed permissions of files until I could. I'd worry about changing them back but they were bookmark backups haha.

All that trouble to move files on a LiveCD that has full access to the disk anyway. Wth lol...

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