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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers who modified my file!! Post 87239 by jim mcnamara on Friday 21st of October 2005 09:55:27 AM
Old 10-21-2005
Some versions of unix filesystems support acl - access control lists.

try
man chacl
or
man acl

to see if your system does supprt them. If it does then you can create very fine-grained access control for your files.
 

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lsacl(1)						      General Commands Manual							  lsacl(1)

NAME
lsacl - list access control lists (ACLs) of files SYNOPSIS
file... DESCRIPTION
lists access control lists (ACLs) of one or more files in symbolic, ``short'' form, one file's ACL per line of output, followed by the file name; see acl(5) for ACL syntax. Options recognizes the following option: Print ACLs in long form. Each file's ACL can be more than one line long, and is always preceded by file name, colon, and newline. Consecutive file names are separated by blank lines. If a hyphen is given as a file name argument, prints the ACL for the standard input. By default, it prints the file name as For the option it prints a file name of Unlike cannot list ACLs of files in subdirectories automatically or list the ACL entries of the files in the current directory by default. A good way to do the latter is: or EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables determines the language in which messages are displayed. If is not specified or is set to the empty string, a default of "C" (see lang(5)) is used instead of If any internationalization variable contains an invalid setting, behaves as if all internationalization variables are set to "C". See environ(5). RETURN VALUE
If succeeds, it returns zero. If invoked incorrectly, it returns a value of If is unable to read the ACL for a specified file, it prints an error message to standard error, continues, and later returns a value of EXAMPLES
List the ACL for the file List ACLs for all files in the current directory, in long form. List ACLs for all files under DEPENDENCIES
will fail when the target file resides on a file system which does not support ACLs. NFS: is not supported on remote files. AUTHOR
was developed by HP. SEE ALSO
chacl(1), getaccess(1), ls(1), getacl(2), acl(5). lsacl(1)
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