Re: Meaning of effective permissions

["Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

So what is the purpose of granting someone, say user A rwx permissons if the 
mask will only allow r---?  I thought the ACL entry would override the mask.


> 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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Brett I. Holcomb
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