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From: L A Walsh <cygwin@tlinx.org>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: rename a user using setfacl -- possible?  how?
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 19:14:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5D1FA19D.2020707@tlinx.org> (raw)

Have an acl on a file 'testfile' that appears to include a userid
with a GUID corresponding to some older value for the local system.

I'm gave the old guid a name in /etc/group different from its name,
say calling it 'oldname' (where current name, is say, 'curname').

I guess I don't know how to modify an entry to either 1-rename it, or
2 add the new entry.

I tried
setfacl -x group:oldname:rwx -m group:curname:rwx but got:

setfacl: illegal acl entries


will setfacl not work for this task?
How do you add a new user to the access list -- obviously -x removes
a user, but not sure if 'add' is covered by -m or whether or not you 'add'
by specifying the new entry.

BTW -- is there an easy way to see the numeric values it is using
for a given name?

Like:
group:Local account and member of Administrators group:rwx

I remember seeing that, but it isn't in my /etc/group file.

Tried getfacl with -n but that doesn't seem to be an option
to display a numeric GUID.

Thanks!
-Linda



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             reply	other threads:[~2019-07-05 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-05 19:14 L A Walsh [this message]
2019-07-06  4:45 ` Brian Inglis
2019-07-06  9:20 ` Andrey Repin
2019-07-06  9:39   ` L A Walsh
2019-07-06 10:41     ` Sam Edge
2019-07-06 16:05     ` Andrey Repin
2019-07-06 17:01       ` Brian Inglis
2019-07-17  1:52         ` L A Walsh
2019-07-17  9:05           ` Andrey Repin
2019-07-06 19:41 ` Achim Gratz

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