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Show the ACL permissions of a file

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user@server
getfacl /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs

Lists owner, group, standard permissions and all additional ACL entries for specific users or groups. A + at the end of the permissions in ls -l indicates that an ACL is set. Entries starting with default: act as a template for files newly created in the directory.

Note: If the command is missing, it is provided by the acl package (apt install acl).

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Grant a user write access with ACLs

#setfacl -R -m u:deploy:rwX,d:u:deploy:rwX /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs
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Copy a directory locally with all permissions and attributes

#rsync -aHAX --info=progress2 /var/www/vhosts/ /mnt/newdisk/vhosts/
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Check permissions along a path

$namei -l /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/index.php
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Copy permissions and owner from a reference file

#chmod --reference=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/index.php /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/wp-config.php && chown --reference=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/index.php /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/wp-config.php
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Find files with the SUID or SGID bit

#find / -xdev \( -perm -4000 -o -perm -2000 \) -type f -exec ls -l {} + 2>/dev/null
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Find files with the wrong owner in a webspace

#find /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs ! -user webuser -ls
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