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Donald A. Tevault
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Donald A. Tevault - but you can call him Donnie - got involved with Linux way back in 2006, and has been working with it ever since. He holds the Linux Professional Institute Level 3-Security certification, and the GIAC Incident Handler certification. Donnie is a professional Linux trainer, and thanks to the magic of the internet, teaches Linux classes literally the world over from the comfort of his living room. He's also a Linux security researcher for an IoT security company.
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Using ACLs to access files in the shared directory


As things currently stand, all members of the marketing group have read/write access to all other group members' files. Restricting access to a file to only specific group members is the same two-step process that we've already covered. 

Setting the permissions and creating the ACL

First, Vicky sets the normal permissions to allow only her to access her file. Then, she'll set the ACL:

[vicky@localhost marketing]$ echo "This file is only for my good friend, Cleopatra." > vicky_file.txt

[vicky@localhost marketing]$ chmod 600 vicky_file.txt

[vicky@localhost marketing]$ setfacl -m u:cleopatra:r vicky_file.txt

[vicky@localhost marketing]$ ls -l
total 4
-rw-rw-r--. 1 charlie marketing 0 Nov 13 15:59 charlie_file.txt
-rw-r-----+ 1 vicky marketing 49 Nov 13 16:24 vicky_file.txt

[vicky@localhost marketing]$ getfacl vicky_file.txt
# file: vicky_file.txt
# owner: vicky
# group: marketing
user::rw-
user:cleopatra:r--
group::---
mask::r--
other:...
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Donald A. Tevault

Donald A. Tevault - but you can call him Donnie - got involved with Linux way back in 2006, and has been working with it ever since. He holds the Linux Professional Institute Level 3-Security certification, and the GIAC Incident Handler certification. Donnie is a professional Linux trainer, and thanks to the magic of the internet, teaches Linux classes literally the world over from the comfort of his living room. He's also a Linux security researcher for an IoT security company.
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