File Permissions:
Absolute(Numeric mode):
"chown" is used to change the ownership permission of a file or directory.
"chgrp" is used to change the group permission of a file or directory.
chmod is used to change file permissions
Before permission change:
Created folder devopsbatch3:
check permissions for user/group/others
After permissions change:
Symbolic Mode :
+ | Adds a permission to a file or directory |
– | Removes the permission |
= | Sets the permission and overrides the permissions set earlier. |
ACL(Access Control List):
Access control list (ACL) provides an additional, more flexible permission mechanism for file systems. It is designed to assist with UNIX file permissions. ACL allows you to give permissions for any user or group to any disc resource.
Think of a scenario in which a particular user is not a member of group created by you but still you want to give some read or write access, how can you do it without making user a member of group, here comes in picture Access Control Lists, ACL helps us to do this trick.
Basically, ACLs are used to make a flexible permission mechanism in Linux.
List of commands for setting up ACL :
List of commands for setting up ACL :
To add permission for user setfacl -m "u:user:permissions" /path/to/file
To add permissions for a group setfacl -m "g:group:permissions" /path/to/file
To allow all files or directories to inherit ACL entries from the directory it is within setfacl -dm "entry" /path/to/dir
To remove a specific entry setfacl -x "entry" /path/to/file
To remove all entries setfacl -b path/to/file
getfacl testfile.txt----To check permissions of file.
setfacl testfile.txt---To change permissions of file.
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