I have no idea what is going on but this looks good. I agree with you guys. Upvoted.
It's for more granular access permissions for files and folders.
Cool. Does ACL support also depend on the filesystem?
Yeah, but I think all reasonably-modern Unixy filesystems on Linux will support ACLs. ext2/3/4, btrfs, xfs, zfs, jfs, etc.
Basically everything except NTFS or Fat in it's name.
Technically, this is also possible by creating extra groups, but this kind of access control presumably exists because the old-school method can be a pain to administer. Choosing group names can also be an "interesting" secondary challenge.
i.e. Dude's not going to be best pleased if they
ls -land see the group on the file isxyzgroup-but-not-dudeeven if it is with good reason. (Shouldn't have deleted the database, dude.)I don't really think that that's a realistic goal for ACLs. I mean,
getfaclshowing the user specifically being excluded probably isn't any more-polite.In a previous life (in the 90s) I was a un*x sysadmin, and ACL is nightmarish in big company, I hated it and avoided it
I understand it all less after reading that. I need more coffee.
Does anybody use ACL without regretting it?
Whoaa, are you ACLing sober? Slow down champ!!
Cool, I didn't know ACLs were a widely available thing but the infographic explains pretty well! Sounds really useful when granular controls are needed, but I could also imagine it being a huge pain in environments already built out and scripted around regular permissions. Still as always, options are good and an ounce of planning is worth a pound of troubleshooting.
I do low-key hate seeing a directory named "dir" and a group named "me" though. That's chaotic neutral shit at the very least.
Confusing. You set a mask for a user and somehow it propagated down to a group and then you change permission on that group suddenly it applies to the user? Either something is wrong here or ACL permissions make absolutely zero sense. It is 5 billion times easier to use normal permissions to set these things up.
I think it's like this: what used to be group in regular permissions output is a union of group and ACL mask in ACL output. Mask sets the upper limit of what ACL can do, so if mask is rw- then it's impossible to set a r-x ACL permission because allowing execution is not allowed.
This seems to be more geared towards enterprise environment where it could be complicated to cleanly define groups, since you can only give access to one you might run into a problem where dept. A needs access to that directory but also person G from dept. B and person K from dept. C.
Yep, it's basically a way to define new groups per directory. But these groups are hidden from the normal group commands!
ACL Access-Control Lists
Access Control List Access Control Lists?
I mean in this case it's to show what ACL means, not like RIP in peace
That's what parentheses are for.
That's all fine and dandy, but why does it say rxw on the left?
Permissions are listed as "user", "group", "other". I.e. the user who made the file, the group of the user who made the file (usually just their name as a group), and everyone else. In this case the rxw is for the user.
For chmod, you can also represent these as binary numbers: 111 would mean having all 3, 101 would mean having read and write, etc. These binary numbers then get turned back into regular numbers (7 in the first example, since it's 111) for chmod. Giving a file "chmod 777" means the user, group, and other all have full permissions on the file. "chmod 700" gives the creator full control, but no one else can view, modify, or execute the file.
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The only thing you need to know about file acls is not to use them. Similar thing can be said for Network ACLs to be honest.
I've been a network engineer for five years at three companies and not a one has used switch or router based ACL's. It's all in the FW appliance.
No one does this anymore
Sudo
