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  • January 11, 2006 at 4:17 am #364712
    Gary Bernstein
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    Is there way to determine what folders a user has privileges to? I know I can tell what groups they are a member of, but I need to know that when a user leaves that I have figured out which files they had access to so that I can evaluate whether the file should be deleted or kept and given to his/her replacement or supervisor.

    Thanks
    -Gary

    January 11, 2006 at 11:43 pm #364726
    Gary Bernstein
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    The find command looks promising. I just took a quick look at the man page (as I need to get home for dinner). The only thing I didn’t see is a way to find if a particular user as an ACL for an item (which I realize isn’t what I asked, but should have).

    Thanks
    -Gary

    January 12, 2006 at 1:54 pm #364739
    maccanada
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    Well, I really wouldn’t recommend ever using ACL’s on a per-user basis unless it’s absolutely essential – it’s a really BadThing©. It can get messy and complicated in a hurry. Using Groups would probably solve a lot of your problems…having said that;

    ls -le

    will list the ACLs out, so it should be possible to script something detailing what you need.

    January 12, 2006 at 2:39 pm #364740
    Gary Bernstein
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    I agree, but I haven’t figured it out yet. I was looking at doing something like an: ls -leR | grep username but it didn’t return the name of the file. I thought about adding grep -B 1 username, but the username may not always be the first ACL.

    I’m open to suggestions……

    Thanks
    -Gary

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