[ILUG] ext3 acls

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:40:14 +0100 (BST)
  | From: Paul Reilly <paulr at maths.tcd.ie>
  | 
  | Does anyone know if it's possible to get ext3 extended
  | acl's [1] to be inherited from a parent dir ?  Eg:
  | I want to set a directory with extended acl's and have
  | any files created subsequently under this dir to inherit
  | those extra acls. So far I can't see how this is possible.
  | Anyone got this working?

 isn't this exactly what the “default ACL” is for?
 my understanding is that if a directory has one
 of these beasties, then:

  ①  any file created in that dir gets that ACL as
     its access ACL;  and

  ②  any dir created in that dir gets that ACL as
     both its access and default ACLs.

 see setfacl(1), getfacl(1), and acl(5).

cheers!
	-blf-

  | Paul
  | 
  | [1] http://acl.bestbits.at/download.html
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