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I added user “myfriend” to the Access Control List (ACL) of my directory. Why can they access the directory?

April 26, 2017ACL added CONTROL directory list myfriend user

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I added user “myfriend” to the Access Control List (ACL) of my directory. Why can they access the directory?

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There are several possibilities. A user needs “list” permission on all the ancestors to a directory to access a directory. For example: You wish to give a friend access to directory ~/private/project.