Hmm... Maybe someone will be able to help you on the basis of the information you provided, but I'd suggest you give some more details.
> We created for an already existing file system acl looking like this: First, I assume you remounted the filesystem with ACL support (just sanity-checking, no offence meant). I suggest you include the output of mount and/or the relevant part of /etc/fstab. > We want to know why the permissions for group bioserv are not inherited on > subdirectories ( only on the new created directories under group bioserv) This does not seem surprising: "man acl" says that "the access ACL of a file object is initialized when the object is created..." > and why users from bioserv group cannot r/w files in other users > directories? Can you include the output of "ls -ld" and "getfacl" for directories that exhibit problems? Just an example? For both "other users' directories" and "inheritance problems"? -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
