Re: Solaris 9 - ACL, complete removal

From: Peter C. Tribble (ptribble_at_hgmp.mrc.ac.uk)
Date: 03/10/04 

Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:52:00 +0000 (UTC)

In article <SWE3c.7793$zu.7221@newsfe1-win>,
        "Gareth Crispin" <gareth.crispin@ntlworld.com> writes:
> Group,
>
> I'm currently studying for the CX-310-014 exam, with touches upon the topic
> of Access Control Lists.
>
> I can effectively set, view and modify ACL's (getfacl setacl), but once I'm
> finished I can't remove them completely, so that standard Unix file
> permissions take precedence again. How do I do this?

Use setfacl to replace the entire ACL with one that only contains the
regular permission bits. For example:

/bin/getfacl $file | /bin/egrep '^(user::|group::|mask:|other:)' | /bin/setfacl -f - $file

(although that might leave if with an ACL if the mask was nonstandard). 

-- 
-Peter Tribble
MRC Rosalind Franklin Centre for Genomics Research
http://www.rfcgr.mrc.ac.uk/~ptribble/

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