ACL lists (was Re: file attributes)

[Shankar Unni]

SLIGHT DRIFT:

In comp.unix.wizards, gt0178a at prism.gatech.EDU (Jim Burns) writes:

> The one implementation of them I saw, tho', HP-UX 7.0's, had
> a flaw that any time you use 'chmod', it wipes out the ACL list. 

Check the -A option to chmod. "preserves the ACL list". It doesn't actually
modify the ACLs, because there is no simple mapping between ACLs and
ordinary Unix permissions. Instead, there is chacl(1).

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