File permissions

[Alex Almaraz]

System: B.11.11 U 9000/899

Dear gurus, somebody can give post a quick reference for setting ACL on a files or directory?

Regards

[Patrick Wallek]

How about the man page?

# man setacl

[A. Clay Stephenson]

On vxfs filesystems, man setacl. On hfs filesystems man chacl. That should be all the help you need.

[Kent Ostby]

Take a look at this discussion:

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/search.do?category=c0&&mode=id&searchCrit=allwords&docType=EngineerNotes&searchString=KBRC00014546

[Alex Almaraz]

ok, let me check the man pages, by the way, if you have a quick sample for setting the permissions for a group, I will appreciate it very much,

tks

[Ivan Ferreira · Accepted solution]

Remember that ACLs add complexity to the administration. A whell planned directory structure should not require the use of ACLs in most cases.

Here, I am allowing a user fred to write to this file, and barney read and write access:

setacl -m 'user:fred:w,user:barney:rw' /tmp/testfile

getacl /tmp/testfile

[Ivan Ferreira]

Another aspect of ACLs is their relationship with standard UNIX backup utilities. tar, cpio, and pax do not know what an ACL is and will print out a warning message to the effect that the ACL for the file is not backed up.

[Ivan Ferreira]

For a group. Here the group test is given read and execute permission:

setacl -m 'group:test:rx' /tmp/testfile

getacl /tmp/testfile

[Alex Almaraz]

With the posted information I solved the requiring.

Thanks all for your responses, specially to Ivan.

Regards