Re: Sharing ACL's

On Wednesday 10 January 2007 14:44, Bo Jacobsen wrote:
> Is it possible for a directory to just inherit/share it's parent
> directory's acl. I don't mean having the same rights apply to it (a
> copy), but really sharing the ACL so that any changes made to the acl
> of the parent, automatically also applies to it itself.

No, POSIX ACLs don't have any automatic propagation of rights built in other 
than at file create time.

This wouldn't integrate very well with chmod and file create modes. I don't 
have a good idea how dynamic inheritance mechanisms could be implemented on a 
POSIX compliant system.

Andreas
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