View extended ACL for a file with ‘+’ in ls -l output
A file in a ls -l listing has permissions such as:
A file in a ls -l listing has permissions such as:
I’m on CentOS 6.2, and have a file with the alternate access method character displayed as a dot.
I can’t manage to set x bit to created file.
Is there a way to back up and restore file ownership and permissions (the things that can be changed with chown and chmod)?
I have looked though the answers to similar questions and refreshed my memory on ACLs by reading tutorials on Linux ACLs. Yet, I am still stumped. What have I done wrong, or what do I not understand?
Can someone explain to me how umask affects the default mask of newly created files if ACLs are activated? Is there some documentation about this?
Is it enough to see getfacl giving no error, or do I have to check some other place to see whether or not ACLs are supported by the file systems?