Linux/setfacl – Set all current/future files/directories in parent directory to 775 with specified owner/group

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I have a directory called "members" and under it there are folders/files. How can I recursively set all the current folders/files and any future ones created there to by default have 775 permissions and belong to owner/group nobody/admin respectively? I enabled ACL, mounted, but can't seem to get the setfacl command to do this properly. Any idea how to accomplish this?

Best Answer

I actually found something that so far does what I asked for, sharing here so anyone who runs into this issue can try out this solution:

sudo setfacl -Rdm g:groupnamehere:rwx /base/path/members/
sudo setfacl -Rm g:groupnamehere:rwx /base/path/members/

R is recursive, which means everything under that directory will have the rule applied to it.
d is default, which means for all future items created under that directory, have these rules apply by default. m is needed to add/modify rules.

The first command, is for new items (hence the d), the second command, is for old/existing items under the folder. Hope this helps someone out as this stuff is a bit complicated and not very intuitive.

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