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the file's group is not really "your" group (singular - though to chgrp yourself, it must be among your groups)
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The file permissions discussed above have been available in Unix-like operating systems for decades now but they are very coarse-grained. The whole set of users is divided into just three categories: the owner, the group, and everyone else. What if you want to allow someone who isn't in | The file permissions discussed above have been available in Unix-like operating systems for decades now but they are very coarse-grained. The whole set of users is divided into just three categories: the owner, the group, and everyone else. What if you want to allow someone who isn't in a group to read a file - do you really need to make the file readable by everyone in that case? The answer, happily, is no. Compute Canada's national systems offer ''access control lists'' (ACLs) to enable permissions to be set on a user-by-user basis if desired. The two commands needed to manipulate these extended permissions are | ||
* <tt>getfacl</tt> to see the ACL permissions, and | * <tt>getfacl</tt> to see the ACL permissions, and | ||
* <tt>setfacl</tt> to alter them. | * <tt>setfacl</tt> to alter them. | ||