UFS/NFS have permissions on a per-file level. AFS is unlike this, and provides ACLs on a per directory basis. A sample acl looks like:
Access list for . is Normal rights: zacheiss:me rlidwka system:anyuser rl zacheiss rlidwka
An entry appearing on an ACL must either be a user or a group. The form of a group's name is:
The owner doesn't have to be a userid. it can be a creation, which we used to call a supergroup. system is an example of that.
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