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Introduction
What are ACLs?
Advanced permissions beyond user group other. ..It has powerful features such as being able to give permissions to more than one user or group.
ACLs versus Traditional Permissions
ACLs though powerful add additional complexity to the system and do have some limitations discussed further down this articlebelow. You will notice throughout the Bonsai Framework we add use ACLs only when absolutely necessary.
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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(s) or folder(s) created outside of an ACL directory into an ACL directory will not result in inheritance of permissions. (even with defaults setif you have specified inheritance in the ACL directory)
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.
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