#acl
3 pages tagged acl.
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xattr
Deep-dive on macOS extended attributes — listing, reading, writing, and removing xattrs with xattr(1); the Gatekeeper com.apple.quarantine flag; Spotlight metadata attributes; ACLs via ls -le and chmod +a; preserving attributes on copy with cp -p and rsync -X.
takeown
Transfer ownership of files and directories to the current user or the Administrators group from an elevated command prompt — a prerequisite for modifying ACLs on system-protected paths.
permissions
POSIX file permissions on Linux. Covers symbolic and octal chmod, ownership with chown, the meaning of r/w/x for files vs. directories, setuid/setgid/sticky bits, umask, ACLs, capabilities, and immutable attributes.