Use of setfacl not working as expected

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#1

I used setfacl to set permissions as follows:

~/scripts/lib # getfacl files/

file: files/

owner: root

group: root

flags: -s-

user::rwx
group::rwx
other::rwx
default:user::rwx
default:group::rwx
default:mask::rwx
default:other::rwx

As you can see all settings lead to permissions 777 but that’s not what happens. What happens if I say, touch a file, I get: 666 as this shows:

:~/scripts/lib # l files/
total 8
drwxrwsrwx+ 2 root root 4096 2010-06-04 02:28 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-06-04 02:25 …/
-rw-rw-rw-+ 1 root root 0 2010-06-04 02:23 a.sh

Same for files that are not obviously scripts such as just a.txt.

My umask is 0022.

Does anyone know why this is? Is it changeable for specific directories?

This is a special world viewed directory required by a piece of software… in other words, no, I am not in a habit of setting file permissions to 777 so please no comments about you shouldn’t be using such permissions.

Truthfully, I can probably get away with permissions 666 and will if I can but right now I just want to know why it’s happening this way and how to control it.

#2

Some of the permissions that result from setfacl are extended permissions and are not visible to ls. They have to be viewed with getfacl.

#3

Sorry to seem to take forever to reply. I got sidetracked in a big way, again, sorry!

That makes sense but I figured that either “user::rwx” or “default:user::rwx” since neither specifies a specific user/group/etc. would map directly to the normal permissions. I wonder if any of these settings then map to the normal permissions that ls reads?

#4

chmod/ls work on the standard Unix permission bits, and setfacl works on the ACLs and the twain will not meet.

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#6

Got it, loud and clear, thanks.