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Date:      Tue, 17 Jul 2001 10:42:19 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Eric Boucher <eric_boucher60@yahoo.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Giving some restriction to some user
Message-ID:  <15188.23771.128210.907073@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <131691525@toto.iv>

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Eric Boucher <eric_boucher60@yahoo.com> types:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I wanted to know if there is a way to give some user
> access to read, write or execute some files even if
> these users are not in the same group as mine. I heard
> that there is something like this on AIX machines, a
> program called acl???? or something like that.

Access Control Lists (acl) is a facility, not a program. It's been
added to a number of Unix variants. There are some signs that some
kind of acl facility will be in 5.0, but there's nothing in 4.

Ryan Thompson gave provided a nice writeup on using standard unix
facilities for doing this.

	<mike
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