From the course: Linux CentOS 7: Files and Permissions
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ACL overview - Linux Tutorial
From the course: Linux CentOS 7: Files and Permissions
ACL overview
- [Narrator] There are limitations to the Standard Linux Permissions system. Files and directories can only belong to one user. Files and directories can only belong to one group. Permissions for other are not concise, meaning that we don't know who other is. It could be Bob, it could be Ted. Inheritance only supports group ownership. There's no easy way to back up and restore permissions. There's also no easy way to temporarily restrict permissions. An example of the limitations of Standard Linux Permissions would be a directory where the accounting group needs read, write, and execute permissions. In addition, the marketing group would need read and execute permissions. The closest we can get to satisfying this objective is to make the accounting group to group owner and set their permissions to rwx. Since a directory can only be owned by one group, we would have no other choice but to have the marketing group access the directory using other permissions. The problem is that…
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