ACL stands for access control list. ACLs extend permissions on files beyond the traditional user-group-others triple.

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Using setfacl to allow group members to write to any file in a directory

I'd like to use setfacl so that anyone in group 'app' can edit any file contained within /usr/local/users/app regardless of what the traditional UNIX permissions say. I have two users john and ben. I ...
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User with read access to /home

Pardon my ignorance but I can't seem to come up with a solution to this one. I'd like to create a user that has read access to every user's home catalog located in /home. Do I need acl's for this or ...