Before working on ACL make sure that ACL is enabled on the mounted file system. You can enable it during mounting the filesystem with the ACL option.

Use the following command Check if ACL is enabled on the filesystem or not.

sudo mount 

Output
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,acl)

Enable ACL by remounting file system using following command.

# mount -o remount,acl  /

To enable ACL default on system bootup update following entry in /etc/fstab file.

Output
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00    /    ext3  defaults,acl  1 1

Configure ACL on File

If we want that user Bob to have all permissions on a file. Use the following command.

# setfacl -m u:Bob:rwx tecadmin.txt

Details of parameters:

setfacel:  is a command itself
 -m : is used to modify ACL.
  u : it denotes to assign permission to a user
bob : a system user
rwx : file permissions.
tecadmin.txt: file on which bob will get access.

Check ACL on File

Use following command to check ACL configured on a file.

# getfacl tecadmin.txt

Output:

# file: tecadmin.txt
# owner: root
# group: root
user::rw-
user:Bob:rwx
group::r--
mask::rwx
other::r--

Remove ACL from File

If we don’t need the ACL in file, we can simply remove using following command.

# setfacl -x u:Bob tecadmin.txt

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