acl group permissions

[Oleg Goldshmidt]

Hmm... Maybe someone will be able to help you on the basis of the
information you provided, but I'd suggest you give some more details.

> We created for an already existing file system acl looking like this:

First, I assume you remounted the filesystem with ACL support (just
sanity-checking, no offence meant). I suggest you include the output
of mount and/or the relevant part of /etc/fstab.

> We want to know why the permissions for group bioserv are not inherited on
> subdirectories ( only on the new created directories under group bioserv)

This does not seem surprising: "man acl" says that "the access ACL of
a file object is initialized when the object is created..."

> and why users from bioserv group cannot  r/w files in other users
> directories?

Can you include the output of "ls -ld" and "getfacl" for directories
that exhibit problems? Just an example? For both "other users'
directories" and "inheritance problems"?

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