FW: How to manipulate access control lists (ACL)?

[Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)]

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Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) wrote:
| I put a query on unix.com and they pointed me to
| http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl5_acl.htm .
|
| I don't understand this link: is it describing a bash command?

No, it's not.  It describes the format of the lists and how ACLs work.

| At bash I type "info acl" and "man acl" but I cannot find any
| description of a bash command for adding an ACL to a file. Can I
| do this from cygwin bash?

getfacl(1) and setfacl(1).


Yaakov
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