Re: [CentOS] Default ACL inheritance question

2020-05-14 Thread James Pearson
Thanks - that seems to make sense I guess I was being over optimistic thinking default ACLs could help here :-) Thanks James Pearson J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote: Look at the acl(5) man page and you'll see that the ACCESS CHECK ALGORITH starts: IF the effective user ID of the process

Re: [CentOS] Default ACL inheritance question

2020-05-14 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
Look at the acl(5) man page and you'll see that the ACCESS CHECK ALGORITH starts: IF the effective user ID of the process matches the user ID of the file object owner ... ELSE IF the effective user ID of the process matches the qualifier of any entry of type ACL_USER, THEN IF th

[CentOS] Default ACL inheritance question

2020-05-14 Thread James Pearson
A bit of a minor off-topic issue, but on the off-chance that someone understands how ACLs work ... I've been trying to see if using default ACLs would help with the following issue: I have a third party application that is running as a non-root user ('user-a') and creating log files with mod