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Re: chacl question

To: "Schincke, Keith" <kschin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: chacl question
From: Andrew Gildfind <ajag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 09:28:17 +1000
Cc: "Xfs (E-mail)" <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <CFB7B892437FD21183DC0020484017EB0A7794CE@lynx.unf.edu>; from kschin@lynx.unf.edu on Tue, May 08, 2001 at 04:22:14PM -0400
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On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 04:22:14PM -0400, Schincke, Keith wrote:
> I have used the ACL support that Tru64 Unix uses in their file system. Their
> setacl command allows the setting of an individual ACL permission "setacl -d
> -u user:luser:rw-".
> 
> My question is is there any plans to implement chacl in this way? Unless I
> missed something, I have to type in the whole list of ACLs just to add a new
> one.  It would make it easier than having to retype a long acl entry just to
> add a new person to the list.
> 

No there are no plans to change chacl in the short term, probably the
easiest thing is to do a chacl -l foo and cut paste and edit. Alternatively
munge the output with sed and use a command alias (along the lines of
the example given in the man page).

Andrew

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