Linux

Explain what are ACLs. For what use cases would you recommend to use them?

Difficulty: unrated

Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

ACL stands for Access Control Lists. We can use ACL to have more granular control over accesses to certain files for certain users specifically. For instance, we can return the ACL of a particular file with the command getfacl /absolute/file/path and modify ACLs for a specific file with setfacl -m.