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Standardizing Across Operating Systems - Moving files with ACLs between operating systems that both support ACLs may not work.
Move - Moving a file created outside of an ACL directory into an ACL directory will not result in inheritance of permissions.
Backup - The most used backup command in *nix, tar, does not support ACLs unless modified. Some distributions like redhat have this built into tar. Otherwise your options are to use star or manually backup and restore the ACLs. Options are covered in this article.
Copying Files - This is no-longer an issue with modern (2012 is when I checked) versions of Ubuntu and I would guess other *nix systems. With an older system, check that when setting default ACLs on a directory, the following commands will inherit permissions properly: local copy, sftp remote create and sftp remote copy.Backup - The most used backup command in *nix, tar, does not support
ACLs
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ACLs and Groups
The most scalable way to use ACLs is to apply groups. A tutorial approach will be used to illustrate the commands.
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