VERITAS File System 4.1 Administrator's Guide

The VERITAS File System
Access Control Lists
Chapter 128
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.