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12288 getfacl and setfacl could stand improvement
@@ -20,10 +20,16 @@
including the default ACL on a directory, or it adds, modifies, or
deletes one or more ACL entries, including default entries on
directories.
+ The setfacl utility can only manipulate POSIX-draft ACLs. See acl(5)
+ for a description of the difference between the older POSIX-draft ACLs
+ and the newer NFSv4 ACLs. The chmod(1) utility can be used to
+ manipulate ACLs on all types of file system.
+
+
When the setfacl command is used, it can result in changes to the file
permission bits. When the user ACL entry for the file owner is changed,
the file owner class permission bits are modified. When the group ACL
entry for the file group class is changed, the file group class
permission bits are modified. When the other ACL entry is changed, the
@@ -280,10 +286,10 @@
group file
SEE ALSO
chmod(1), getfacl(1), umask(1), aclcheck(3SEC), aclsort(3SEC),
- group(4), passwd(4), attributes(5)
+ group(4), passwd(4), acl(5), attributes(5)
- December 19, 2006 SETFACL(1)
+ February 8, 2020 SETFACL(1)