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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: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 13:49:06 -0800
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On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 12:05:07PM -0700, Marc Kaplan wrote:
> 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.

right, because those are controlled by standard unix permissions.

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Ethan Benson
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