File permissions management

Have not figured out how to reliably use the gui (get info) in os X to get file permissions set to my liking.

Inevitably a terminal window is required, because file permission handling is so much faster, easier, and more reliable at the command line.

The benefit of using ACL type permissions? Better compatibility with operating systems that use ACL's. That would be - you guessed it. Are ACL type permissions better? Fine grained control, real world modeling, etc, are the reported benefits. The same results could be achieved using unix style permissions, but that would require logic and planning.

Unix permissions settings are essentially a 3x3 system. Kind of like playing tic tac toe in your head. Not very difficult to keep straight, or to figure out what is happening where in terms of system security. Applying this system to real world directory structures adds a depth dimension to the permissions structure.

Admitting a limited understanding of the subject, it appears to me that ACL's add unlimited rows and columns to the board, and besides the depth dimension, add a fourth dimension, and a fifth dimension, on and on. Try to keep that straight in your head! Worse, try to figure out what happened when something goes wrong and security is compromised.

IMHO, ACLs are chasing the tail of the horse that is headed the wrong direction. Simpler is better. Especially when simple has been proven to work in some extraordinarily complex environments. It is difficult to achieve a warm fuzzy feeling for an alternative that is so incredibly complex in its own right, before it is even applied to real world problems.