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From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Subject: Re: tracking perms/ownership
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:33:26 +0200
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fredag 24 augusti 2007 skrev Josh England:
> punt  :)   Simple unix ownership and perms are a good first cut.  ACL's
> could probably be handled in much the same way, but converting between
> unix perms and ACLs might have to be a separate attribute/filter
> entirely.

You cannot convert between traditional unix permissisons and ACL:s. Either you
manage ACL:s or not. The traditional form is fortunately just a special case of posix
ACL:s. Here is a getfacl example. Just feed it to setfacl to set permissions according
to the dump.

$ getfacl README
# file: README
# owner: me
# group: me
user::rw-
group::r--
group:apache:rwx
mask::rwx
other::r--

Windows ACL.s are different though. 

-- robin