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System Administration Guide: Security Services

Examples—Displaying ACL Entries for a File

The following example shows all the ACL entries for the ch1.doc file. The #effective: note beside the user and group entries indicates what the permissions are after being modified by the ACL mask.


$ getfacl ch1.doc

# file: ch1.doc
# owner: nathan
# group: sysadmin
user::rw-
user:george:r--         #effective:r--
group::rw-              #effective:rw-
mask:rw-
other:---

The following example shows the default ACL entries for the book directory.


$ getfacl -d book

# file: book
# owner: nathan
# group: sysadmin
user::rwx
user:george:r-x         #effective:r-x
group::rwx              #effective:rwx
mask:rwx
other:---
default:user::rw-
default:user:george:r--
default:group::rw-
default:mask:rw-
default:other:---