How do I allow rwx access to a specific group with ACLs?

Question

How do I grant read, write and execute to specific group?

What I did:

adduser test
addgroup developer
setfacl -m g:developer:rwx /opt/spago41/

When I login as test I can't run:

startup.sh in /opt/spago41/

Is the setfacl command not working?

Answer 1

I think you were missing the "recursive" parameter:

setfacl -Rm g:developer:rwx /opt/spago41/

Answer 2

# useradd -G developers test

Use the below command if ther user test is already created.

# usermod -a -G Developer test

This will solve your problem. As you haven't appended the user test in developer group, and you set ACL to group developer, which doesn't have user test in it.
Attribution: SHW

Answer 3

Check 1#

As @SHW suggested in comments check that test user is exists or not in Developer Group

Check 2#

File System mounted with acl option or not.

from man mount:

   acl|noacl
          Support POSIX Access Control Lists (or not).

you can check using mount command