https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/access-control-list/m-p/4586924#M374485 But default file security is User, Group and Other. By using ACLs you can have more combinations other than these three.<BR />See getacl(1) and setacl(1) examples. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:36:01 GMT Dennis Handly 2010-02-19T08:36:01Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/access-control-list/m-p/4586923#M374484 Dear Sir<BR /><BR />Please explain What is Access Control List?<BR />IN HP-ux ,For what purpose we use this.with examples<BR /><BR />Regards<BR /><BR />AJN Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:11:31 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/access-control-list/m-p/4586923#M374484 Ajin_1 2010-02-19T08:11:31Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/access-control-list/m-p/4586924#M374485 But default file security is User, Group and Other. By using ACLs you can have more combinations other than these three.<BR />See getacl(1) and setacl(1) examples. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:36:01 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/access-control-list/m-p/4586924#M374485 Dennis Handly 2010-02-19T08:36:01Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/access-control-list/m-p/4586925#M374486 Hi<BR /> Besides the normal file permission(rwx) ACL provides easy method for accessing the file for users. <BR />#setacl -m user:user1:r-- file1<BR /><BR />The above command sets the permission for file1 to user1 as read only.(r--)<BR />The advantage compared to chmod is here we can specify individual user.<BR />See man getacl<BR /> man setacl<BR /><BR />Bijeesh Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:42:28 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/access-control-list/m-p/4586925#M374486 Bijeesh 2010-02-19T08:42:28Z