Does U*X have Access Control Lists?


 
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Old 05-05-2008
Does U*X have Access Control Lists?

In OS like windows, I can define an Access Control List (ACL) and specify which accounts and groups have what access to a specific file.

I assume U*X, Linux and cygwin on windows have this ACL feature too. I'm using cygwin on windows. What do I type at a bash prompt to allow a specific user access to a certain file via its enclosing parent directories?

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Siegfried
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Old 05-05-2008
acl - Linux Command - Unix Command check this site. Normally, when ACLs are not used, the POSIX standards of rwxrwxrwx are used where the first set of rwx is for the owner, the second set is for group membership and the last set is for other or world.
 
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