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12288 getfacl and setfacl could stand improvement
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Control List (ACL). For each directory argument, getfacl displays the
owner, the group, and the ACL and/or the default ACL. Only directories
contain default ACLs.
+ The getfacl utility will fail if executed on a file system that
+ supports NFSv4 ACLs. See acl(5) for a description of the difference
+ between the older POSIX-draft ACLs and the newer NFSv4 ACLs. The ls(1)
+ utility, when used with the -v or -V options, will display ACLs on all
+ types of file system.
+
+
The getfacl utility may be executed on a file system that does not
support ACLs. It reports the ACL based on the base permission bits.
With no options specified, getfacl displays the filename, the file
@@ -228,16 +235,16 @@
|Interface Stability | Evolving |
+--------------------+-----------------+
SEE ALSO
chmod(1), ls(1), setfacl(1), acl(2), aclsort(3SEC), group(4),
- passwd(4), attributes(5)
+ passwd(4), acl(5), attributes(5)
NOTES
The output from getfacl is in the correct format for input to the
setfacl -f command. If the output from getfacl is redirected to a file,
the file may be used as input to setfacl. In this way, a user may
easily assign one file's ACL to another file.
- November 5, 1994 GETFACL(1)
+ February 8, 2020 GETFACL(1)