Access control lists

[sroberts82]

Hi,
I was wondering if someone could help me with ACL's. I have a file, say output, created by the root user, member of group other. Its permissions are rwxr--r--. I want only people in group other to have rwx access, but I also want one other user, stephen, member of some_other_group to have rwx access. I added an entry to the acl to give me:
user:stephen:rwx
Logged in as stephen, I can now write to the file but cannot delete it. How is this? If it helps the directory permissions are
rwxr-xr-x root other

The mask is rwx too.

Thanks in advance

 

[cndcadams]

can you do a getfacl on the directory and post the output.

thanks

ca

 

[Mike042]

Logged in as stephen, I can now write to the file but cannot delete it. How is this?

To change a file you need w (write) access, to delete a file you need w (write) access to the directory (file) it is in.

I hope that helps.

Mike

 

[cndcadams]

can you also do a getfacl on the file

thanks ca

 

[sroberts82]

Nice one thanks, that was the problem, I didnt have w permission on the dir
Thanks