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Ed Greshko ed.greshko at greshko.com
Tue Sep 22 14:34:01 UTC 2015


On 09/22/15 20:53, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> Yes,
>
> I did:
> setfacl -m u:amsterdam:r out.pdf
>
> but masterdam cannot access to the file:
>
> ls /home/pdupre/out.pdf
> ls: cannot access /home/pdupre/out.pdf: Permission denied
> or
> I/O Error: Couldn't open file '/home/pdupre/out.pdf'

Just like "normal" linux permissions the user also has to have access to the full directory structure.

If user amsterdam doesn't have permission to descend into /home/pdupre then they won't get access to out.pdf.


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