Generating ACLs from Files

A convenient way to create an ACL is to create and edit a text file so that it contains the desired ACL entries, and then generate the ACL from it by using an acl replace operation.

For example, assume the file std_acl contains the following entries:

mask_obj:crwxid-

user_obj:crwxid-

group_obj:crwx---

other_obj:-r-----

user:lizt:crwx---

group:composers:-r-----

user:bach:crwx---

user:mozart:crwx---

The following acl replace operation adds the entries in std_acl to an ACL named /.../dresden.com/my_filesystem/opus:

dcecp> acl replace /.../dresden.com/my_filesystem/opus -acl [cat std_acl]

The acl replace operation overwrites all ACL entries with the ones from the file std_acl. Regardless of what they were before, the ACLs for opus now look like this: