RE: Meaning of effective permissions

[Marc Kaplan <MKaplan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ethan Benson wrote:
> 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.
I don't believe it's true that no one may have more permissions then granted
by the mask. It is my understanding that u:: (file owner) and o:: (other)
are not affected by the mask.

                        -Marc