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Re: Meaning of effective permissions

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Subject: Re: Meaning of effective permissions
From: Ethan Benson <erbenson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 23:35:48 -0800
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 09:26:05AM -0400, brett holcomb wrote:
> What is the meaning of the effective permissions printed 
> by getfacl?  

its showing you what the permissions will really be.

usually this occurs because the mask provides fewer permissions then
the access control entry your looking at.

so if you have an acl giving `luser' rw- permissions to a file, but
the mask is r-- `luser' will only have r-- access to the file.  no one
may have more permissions then granted by the mask.

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Ethan Benson
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