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Secure Files/Directories using ACLs (Access Control Lists) in Linux

By Ravi Saive

As a System Admin, our first priority will be to protect and secure data from unauthorized access. We all are aware of the permissions that we set using some helpful Linux commands like chmod, chown, chgrp??? etc. However, these default permission sets have some limitation and thus, Access Control Lists (ACLs) were implemented.

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