If you need to add permissions to files or folders beyond User, Group or Other, then ACLs are the answer. You can have super fine control over files and folders with ACLs and assign them based upon any number of users and groups. Erin Scott over at the 318 has you covered on how to use ACLs. This article outlines how to apply ACLs as well as the various permission types you can set. It is a great read for those new to ACLs as well as those who have used them in the past. Check out the article here.
Nate Walck
Nate is a Systems Reliability Engineer at Dropbox, Inc in San Francisco, CA. He runs afp548.com along with Sam Keeley and is one of the founding members of the ##osx-server IRC channel on freenode.net. He loves being involved in the Mac Admin community and using Open Source projects whenever possible, especially Munki, The Luggage and Puppet.
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