Re: Unix groups and file access

From: Hon Seng Phuah (hsphuah_at_usa.com)
Date: 05/18/04 

Date: 17 May 2004 16:39:08 -0700

What is ACL?

-HS Phuah

Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote in message news:<barmar-F05882.00221217052004@comcast.dca.giganews.com>...
> In article <3898598f.0405161747.75d5a43e@posting.google.com>,
> hsphuah@usa.com (Hon Seng Phuah) wrote:
>
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I have a simple questionsa and hope to someone can guilde me. Thank
> > you. I have a new group created, abc, and create file, test. I typed
> > chgrp abc test and chmod 750 test.
> >
> > My colleague who is from group, abc, tried to read the file test, the
> > system displayed permission deny. Why? My file stored in the directory
> > has 755 directory permission setting.
> >
> > -HS Phuah
>
> Maybe there's an ACL on the file or directory that's more restrictive
> than the permission modes.