How to setup ACLs on solaris?

petulia3478

Here is an example to setup acls on a directory so a user can write to it, even though the original directory is owned by root and is rwx only by root, that's where ACLs come in.

Make your directory

# mkdir conf

This is how it looks before ACLs have been applied.

# ls -ld conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 Aug 16 13:36 conf

# getfacl conf

# file: conf
# owner: root
# group: root
user::rwx
group::r-x #effective:r-x
mask:r-x
other:r-x

Setup the basic ACL for the driectory

# setfacl -m user::rwx,group::---,mask:rwx,other:---,  \
default:user::rwx,default:group::---,default:mask:rwx,default:other:--- conf

It puts a plus at the end of the directory.

# ls -ld conf
drwx------+ 2 root root 512 Aug 16 13:36 conf

This is how the ACLs on the directory look after basic acls have been applied.

# getfacl conf

# file: conf
# owner: root
# group: root
user::rwx
group::---