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Delete ACLs

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Delete ACLs

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- [ Instructor] Due to the added complexity of ACLs, there are three different ways of deleting ACLs on a file or directory. For this exercise, you'll want to be in your ACL exercise directory that we created in a previous video. To do so, type in cd -/aclexercise and hit Enter. Let's create a directory to set ACLs on. Type in mkdir acldir and hit Enter. Now, let's add a couple of ACLs. Type in setfacl -m user:root:rwx acldir and hit Enter. Now bringing a line back and change user to group and hit Enter again. Bringing a line back one more time, and change root to audio and hit Enter. We'll also set a default ACL. Type in setfacl -d, for default, space -m user:root:rwx acldir and hit Enter. Now let's verify them with getfacl. Type in getfacl acldir and hit Enter. We should see our user ACL, group ACL's and a default ACL as well. To delete ACL's we'll use the setfacl command again. There are three different options…

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