ACL Management Tasks

ACL management involves creating, modifying, and deleting the entries for the ACLs on DCE entities. You can use the DCE control program to do all of these tasks. The control program's acl commands perform the following operations on ACLs:

· Create and modify ACL entries for DCE objects in the local cell and foreign cells. (Note that when objects are created they are associated with initial ACL entries. See Generating ACLs from Files for more information.)

· Display the permissions implemented for an object by the object's ACL manager.

· Create and modify masks used to restrict allowable permissions.

Note: Standard UNIX tools that display and manipulate UNIX modes have an effect only on the ACLs established for the file system.

For a detailed description of the DCE control program's acl commands, see the acl(8dce) reference page.