ACL permissions set correctly but user still doesn't have access

liakoyras

7/28/24, 9:27 AM

I am trying to give access to a user named 'test' for a specific directory under /var/log, but not everything else under /var/.

I used the following commands:

sudo setfacl -R -m user:test:--- /var/
sudo setfacl -R -m user:test:rwx /var/log/test_dir/

getfacl shows that the permissions are set correctly:

# file: var/log/test_dir/
# owner: root
# group: root
user::rwx
user:test:rwx

# file: var
# owner: root
# group: root
user::rwx
user:test:---

However, when trying to ls the contents of test_dir or cat a file existing inside test_dir, it still says

ls: cannot access '/var/log/test_dir': Permission denied

It seems like somehow the first command still overrides the second?

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