Setfacl Examples: Give Users and Groups Access to Files and Directories
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- setfacl: command not found
- Read permission to file
- Write permission to file
- Read permission to directory
- Full permissions to directory
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setfacl: command not found
On Ubuntu, install package acl to enable this command.
Read permission to file
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Write permission to file
TODO
Read permission to directory
TODO
Full permissions to directory
To give an user full permissions to a directory and under, recursively, use: -R -m u:myuser:rwx myuser
Example give user john permission to read, write and execute files under directory mydir, recursively:
$ setfacl -R -m u:john:rwx mydir