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Date:      Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:13:35 -0700
From:      "Atom Powers" <atom.powers@gmail.com>
To:        "David Stanford" <dthomas53@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: setfacl(1) Recursively?
Message-ID:  <df9ac37c0610212013l3735d7e0s9696077894b33756@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <f2c91f770610211804i41b6a3cboaed3ec05bdf27d69@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <f2c91f770610211804i41b6a3cboaed3ec05bdf27d69@mail.gmail.com>

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On 10/21/06, David Stanford <dthomas53@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm simply trying to set ACLs on a few directories but don't see an option
> to recursively apply this to the whole directory's contents. Does applying
> the ACL to a directory inherently apply it to all other files and folders
> within the directory? I've browsed the man page and handbook but can't find
> the info. Thanks.

Hmm, I don't see a recursive option either.
You should be able to set ACL on files in a direcotry with `setfacl -m
<blah> *`, and pipe that through 'find -type:d` and xargs to do an
entire directory tree.

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