Veritas File System 4.1 Administrator's Guide (HP-UX 11i v3, February 2007)

The VERITAS File System
Access Control Lists
Chapter 116
Access Control Lists
An Access Control List (ACL) stores a series of entries that identify specific users or groups and their access
privileges for a directory or file. A file may have its own ACL or may share an ACL with other files. ACLs
have the advantage of specifying detailed access permissions for multiple users and groups. Refer to the
getacl (1) and setacl (1) manual pages for information on viewing and setting ACLs. For VxFS file systems
created with the Version 5 disk layout, up to 1024 ACL entries can be specified. ACLs are also supported on
cluster file systems.