Re: Differences between PHP on LAMP and PHP on Windows Servers

On 22/05/2012 19:32, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > After that, you have file permissions. In Unix, you have file, owner and > group permissions; Windows has read/write permissions and I believe on > newer versions you can get something similar to what Unix/Linux has had > for the last however many years but I'm not 100% sure on that one. Just to clarify on this point, Windows (or rather NTFS) permissions use full ACLs and so, for each file system object, any number of users and/or groups can have any number of allow or deny permissions assigned to them for a range of activities (e.g. read, write, append, delete, create, execute, traverse, read/write attributes, read/write permissions, etc.). There's a good article here that begins to explain it: 'Understanding Windows NTFS Permissions' http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Understanding-Windows-NTFS-Permissions.html NTFS ACLs are similar to (not not identical to) Posix Access Control Lists that are available for Linux and Unixes. -- MarkR PGP public key: http://www.signal100.com/markr/pgp Key ID: C9C5C162