I’ve only tested this on RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux but should work on any system running Linux acl.
ACL’s are useful for providing more granular file and directory access permissions as a supplement to the standard Unix user/group permissions.
Let’s say you want the user ‘funboy’ to have full control over the /disco directory on your system, and you want that to be the case for new files created in /disco as well. The kicker is that the /disco directory is owned by root and you don’t want to add funboy to the root group. Instead use acl’s!
You may need to install it first:
vmhacks.com ]# yum install acl
Then run this:
vmhacks.com ]# setfacl -R -m u:funboy:rwx,d:u:funboy:rwx /disco
Now run:
vmhacks.com ]# ls -l
You’ll see a little “+” which indicates you’re using an ACL. Note that’s a plus sign, not the letter “t” which would mean the sticky bit has been set.
Run this if you want to see the current ACL stuff:
vmhacks.com ]# getfacl /disco
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