Access Control Lists

Installation

The required package acl is a dependency of systemd, it should already be installed.

Configuration

Enabling ACL

To enable ACL, the filesystem must be mounted with the acl option. You can use fstab to make it permanent on your system.
There is a big chance that the acl option is already active as default mount option of your filesystem. Use the following command to check it for ext* formatted partitions:

# tune2fs -l /dev/sdXY | grep "Default mount options:"

Default mount options:    user_xattr acl

Also check that the default mount option is not overridden, in such case you will see noacl in /proc/mounts in the relevant line.
You can set the default mount options of a filesystem using the tune2fs -o option partition command, for example:

# tune2fs -o acl /dev/sdXY

Using the default mount options instead of an entry in /etc/fstab is very useful for external drives, such partition will be mounted with acl option also on other Linux machines. There is no need to edit /etc/fstab on every machine.

Note:

• acl is specified as default mount option when creating an ext2/3/4 filesystem. This is configured in /etc/mke2fs.conf.
• The default mount options are not listed in /proc/mounts.

Set ACL

To modify ACL use setfacl command. To add permissions use setfacl -m.
Add permissions to some user:

# setfacl -m "u:username:permissions"

or

# setfacl -m "u:uid:permissions"

Add permissions to some group:

# setfacl -m "g:groupname:permissions"

or

# setfacl -m "g:gid:permissions"

Remove all permissions:

# setfacl -b

Remove each entry:

# setfacl -x "entry"

To check permissions use:

# getfacl filename

Examples

Set all permissions for user johny to file named "abc":

# setfacl -m "u:johny:rwx" abc

Check permissions

# getfacl abc

# file: abc
# owner: someone
# group: someone
user::rw-
user:johny:rwx
group::r--
mask::rwx
other::r--

Change permissions for user johny:

# setfacl -m "u:johny:r-x" abc

Check permissions

# getfacl abc

# file: abc
# owner: someone
# group: someone
user::rw-
user:johny:r-x
group::r--
mask::r-x
other::r--

Remove all extended ACL entries:

# setfacl -b abc

Check permissions

# getfacl abc

# file: abc
# owner: someone
# group: someone
user::rw-
group::r--
other::r--

Output of ls command

You will notice that there is an ACL for a given file because it will exhibit a + (plus sign) after its Unix permissions in the output of ls -l.

$ ls -l /dev/audio

crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 14, 4 nov.   9 12:49 /dev/audio

$ getfacl /dev/audio

getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: dev/audio
# owner: root
# group: audio
user::rw-
user:solstice:rw-
group::rw-
mask::rw-
other::---

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