From the course: Linux: Files and Permissions

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Challenge: ACLs

Challenge: ACLs

(bright music) - [Instructor] You've now come to the end of the Linux access control list chapter. This challenge will test your knowledge and understanding of what you've learned. In this chapter, you learned about file access control lists. This challenge will focus on granting access to users and groups that need it using ACL's. We're going to use the same scenario that we did in the standard Linux permissions challenge. I've changed the names of it to keep from conflicting with the previous challenge. We have a fictitious engineering company that makes products and sells them to consumers. The developers create technical drawings and documents and the sales department needs access to those items to create marketing material. Just to keep things separate from our previous challenge, we'll use a shared directory at /home/development where the developers placed their documents. All developers can enter, read and write…

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