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Old 12-31-2017, 03:48 PM   #1
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Lightbulb Viewing and editing Windows ACLs (Hidden,System,Archive,ReadOnly,etc…) in Linux?.


How can I see and edit Windows ACLs/ACEs in Linux?

Not just for NTFS, but also for other file systems such as UDF, ISO9660 and FAT.

I would appreciate your help for my question.
 
Old 01-01-2018, 08:25 AM   #2
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It's been a while with Windows, but is the ACL a file? If so, then you can edit it with whatever editor you can find in Linux. I prefer gnuemacs myself.

Meanwhile, Linux is not Windows and does not have access control lists. Instead Linux has file permissions which apply to files as well as directories.

https://www.linux.com/learn/understa...le-permissions
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...and_attributes
 
Old 01-03-2018, 10:07 AM   #3
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An ACL is actually an access-control list.

The format, content, and capabilities of ACLs are not standardized, either between Windows and Linux, or even between various filesystems (and network filesystems), and versions(!) of those filesystems, that are available to Linux.

The only way that you could adjust an ACL from the Linux side is through "mapping" that will be performed by the interface. And frankly, to me, this constitutes "looking through a glass, darkly." Instead, I would log on to Windows directly and perform the ACL adjustments using its own command-set.

But ... "mapping" does occur, such that if you ask to see the ACL of a Windows share you will indeed see something, and you will see it in Linux terms. And (maybe ...), if you then change that ACL in a way that you are authorized to do, some sort of change will take place on the Windows side.
 
  


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