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From: shankar@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Shankar Unni)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ACL lists (was Re: file attributes)
Message-ID: <49110001@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com>
Date: 26 Jun 91 08:47:41 GMT
References: <31710@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Organization: HP India Software Op., Bangalore
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SLIGHT DRIFT:

In comp.unix.wizards, gt0178a@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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