topic Re: Recursive usage of setacl & getacl command in Operating System - HP-UX

Recursive usage of setacl & getacl command

Shameer.V.A — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:56:56 GMT

Hi,
Can anyone provide me with the command option for setacl & getacl HPUX commands.

I need to set the ACL permission for the directory & the sub-directory & files recursively. (Similar to chmod -R)

OS: HP-UX 11.11

Thanks,

Shameer

Re: Recursive usage of setacl & getacl command

Pete Randall — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:00:49 GMT

How about a simple for loop:

for file in `find /startdir`
do
setacl
done

Pete

Re: Recursive usage of setacl & getacl command

OldSchool — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:03:57 GMT

how about a script that does the getacl / setacl and you run it via "find". something like:

myscript.sh contains something like:
getacl $1
setacl ...... $1

then you run it with:

find -p -exec myscript.sh {} \;

???

Re: Recursive usage of setacl & getacl command

Peter Nikitka — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:55:55 GMT

Hi,

I suggest to create two ACL-files (see the option '-f' in 'man setacl'):
one for directories (containing default ACLs for objects created in the future) - e.g. /tmp/mydir.acl - and one for plain files - /tmp/myfile.acl .
Then use
find mydir -type d | xargs setacl -f /tmp/mydir.acl
find mydir -type f | xargs setacl -f /tmp/myfile.acl

Use an additional option '-n' if you think so after having read the corresponding section in the man page.

mfG Peter

Re: Recursive usage of setacl & getacl command

Akram Shaik — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:44:44 GMT

Somthing like this which I used in past to set group ACL's to all subfolders and files

find /tmp/ -type d -exec setacl -m group::r-x -m default:group::r-x {} \;
find /tmp/ -type f -exec setacl -m group::r-x {} \;

Cheers
Akram

Re: Recursive usage of setacl & getacl command

Yogesh M Puranik — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:12:09 GMT

Hi,

Shameer,If u want to use setacl and get acl,follow this......

suppose the current directory is:
/home/yogesh/shameer/personal/logs.Whose owner and group is yogesh:yogesh...

1]check out your current directory.
#pwd
ex./home/yogesh/shameer

2]If you want to set the acl for directory personal, for the user shameer, to whom you wana assign rwx permission.Below is the procedure.."Well -R option is not there for acl."

#setacl -m user:shameer:rwx personal

It will set acl to the folder "personal" and shammer can use that folder w/o any restriction.

3]If you wana check the acl details for the directory "personal".Go to /home/yogesh/shameer n Just run..

# getacl personal.

You will get the details of the same.For more detals check man setacl and getacl.

I hope you, understood what am trying to explain.If you are happy with my explanation, please do assign the points.

cheers!!!

-Yogesh