From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 8 22:05:31 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A332E106566B for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2008 22:05:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bounces@nabble.com) Received: from kuber.nabble.com (kuber.nabble.com [216.139.236.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73CA58FC15 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2008 22:05:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bounces@nabble.com) Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KRa5N-00038a-SP for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:05:25 -0700 Message-ID: <18899706.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 15:05:25 -0700 (PDT) From: acmeinc To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <489C5BAE.6010205@lvor.halvorsen.cc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Nabble-From: akme.inc@gmail.com References: <489C5BAE.6010205@lvor.halvorsen.cc> Subject: Re: ACLs, permission mask and chmod g= X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:05:31 -0000 You may consider trying chmod 660 filename. 660 -----> UGW, user group world. For each read, write, and execute is given a number, 4,2,1 repectively. So, 660 would result in rw-rw----, a popluar format is 755, rwxr-xr-x. You would simply replace add the numbers together for each division and place them after chmod and before the file to give the permissions you would like. Svein Halvor Halvorsen-4 wrote: > > If I have acls enabled on a file, running chmod g=rw on that file, > will not change its group permissions, but the acl mask. > > That is, running the following command: > $ chmod g=rw foo > > ... is equivalent with > $ setfacl -m m::rw- > > ... and not, as I would suspect: > $ setfacl -m g::rw- > > In other words, foo will not be read/writable by its default group > after the command have been run (unless it was already). > > I find this behaviour to be very confusing. It might be the correct > bahaviour, but if so maybe the chmod(1) manpage, and possibly > chmod(2), should be updated to document this? > > > Svein Halvor > > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/ACLs%2C-permission-mask-and-chmod-g%3D-tp18893185p18899706.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com.