Access Control Lists

Alan Dayley alandd at consultpros.com
Sat Feb 14 20:19:15 MST 2009


On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Tameek Henderson
<tameekhenderson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey gang,
>
> I'm trying to set an access control on a file but I keep receiving an error that the operation is not supported.  Here is the command I give:
>
> $setfacl -m u:linux77:rwx file.txt
>
> Here is the exact error:
>
> Setfacl: file.txt: Operation not supported
>
> Help!  :-p

Is file.txt stored on a FAT (i.e. Windows) file system perhaps?
Windows file systems don't support many of the Linux/Unix file
controls.

Alan


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