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How To Implement Access Control List (ACL) For CentOS/RHEL 7

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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><u><i>Implement Access Control List (ACL) For <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/centos7" target="_blank">CentOS 7</a>/<a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Rhel7" target="_blank">RHEL7</a></i></u></span></h1>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">What is Access Control List (ACL)?</span></h2>
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Files and directories or folders have permission sets for the owner of the file along with the group associated with that file and all other users of that system. But these permission sets have some limitations. For example, different permissions cannot be configured for different users. Thus, Access Control Lists (ACLs) were implemented.</div>
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ACLs can be configured as follows<br /></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc;">Per group</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc;">For users not in the user group for the file</li>
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ACL  provides an additional flexible permission mechanism for file system on a Linux system. It enhance the traditional <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Unix" target="_blank">UNIX </a>file permissions for files & folder. With ACL, you can give permissions for any user or any group with fine-grained access rights.</div>
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ACLs can be configured per user, per group or via the effective rights mask. These permissions then can be apply to an individual user or a group, and also you can use the same as rwx (Read, Write, Execute) found in regular file / folder permissions.</div>
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ACLs requires kernel support and your kernel musk support <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/ACL_Permission" target="_blank">ACL </a>in order to implement ACL on your Linux distribution. Along with support in the kernel, the acl package is also required to implement ACLs. Acl package contains the utilities used to add, modify, remove, and retrieve ACL information from a file / folder.</div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Why CentOS Linux?</span></h2>
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CentOS Linux is a community-supported distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by Red Hat for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (<a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/RHEL" target="_blank">RHEL</a>). As such, CentOS Linux aims to be functionally compatible with <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Rhel7" target="_blank">RHEL</a>. The <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Centos" target="_blank">CentOS </a>Project mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork. CentOS Linux is no-cost and free to redistribute. Each CentOS version is maintained for up to 10 years (by means of security updates — the duration of the support interval by Red Hat has varied over time with respect to Sources released). A new CentOS version is released approximately every 2 years and each CentOS version is periodically updated (roughly every 6 months) to support newer hardware. This results in a secure, low-maintenance, reliable, predictable and reproducible Linux environment.</div>
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You can download CentOS from <a href="https://wiki.centos.org/Download" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff5a00; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.2s ease-out, color 0.2s ease-out;">here</a>. You can directly download the ISO file format disk image from <a href="http://buildlogs.centos.org/rolling/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD.iso" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff5a00; text-decoration: none; transition: background 0.2s ease-out, color 0.2s ease-out;">here</a>.</div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Oswald, Lato, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 35px;"><u>Prerequisites</u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Lato, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.8em;">Before beginning, you must know whether your Linux OS kernel supports ACL or not.</span></h2>
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First, switch to root user. This is not required if your current local user have sudo privileges. This is only for this tutorial. Do not practise this for regular system administration.</div>
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Type your root user password for continue.</div>
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To know whether your kernel supports ACL or not, type the following command in a terminal.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 28.8px;">After issuing the above command, you will see something like this which indicates that your kernel has the support for ACL.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 28.8px;">Now, let’s check whether we have the ACL package installed on our system or not. To check such case, issue the below command in a terminal.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 28.8px;">If you don’t have ACL package installed on your system, then issue the below command to install ACL package onto your system.</span></div>
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Before using any ACLs for a file or directory, the partition for the file or directory must be mounted with ACL support.</div>
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A local file system can be mounted with the following command syntax shown as below.</div>
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Here, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">/dev/sdb</span> is a disk device block and <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">acltest</span> is the folder where it will be mounted for access.</div>
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After that, you need to edit the file <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">/etc/fstab</span> for the <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">/dev/sdb</span> partition and you need to include the acl as follows. This will mount <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">/dev/sdb</span> automatically whenever you are rebooting your system.</div>
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Save & exit from the file /etc/fstab. So, whenever you will reboot, your partition will be mounted automatically with acl support.</div>
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</span><span style="color: white;">[root@hackthesec]#</span><span style="color: lime;"> passwd hackthesec1</span></span></span></pre>
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To test acl, we will need at least two users and I will use root and hackthesec1. However you can use different users and it’s up to you.</div>
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First we create a file <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">demoacltest.txt</span> in folder <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">/acltest </span>folder path location.</div>
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We will add acl for user hackthesec1 which will allow hackthesec 1user to write /acltest/demoacltest.txt file.</div>
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and for default permission just use this command bellow

</span><span style="font-size: large;">[root@hackthesec]# setfacl -R -m d:u:hackthesec1:rwx /acltest/demoacltest.txt</span></span></span></pre>
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Now if you want to see the file permission just run the bellow command</div>
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#file: acltest/demoacltest.txt
#owner: root
#group: root
#flags: -s-
user::rwx
user::hackthesec1:rwx
group::rwx
mask::rwx
other::---
default:user::rwx
default:user:hackthesec1:rwx
default:group::--x
default:mask::rwx
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To remove all of the currently defined ACLs from a file or folder, issue the below command.</div>
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Implement Access Control List (ACL) For CentOS 7 / RHEL7 What is Access Control List (ACL)? Files and directories or folders have per...

How to Configure ACL in Linux FileSystem

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<span style="color: #990000;"><u><i>Configure ACL in Linux FileSystem</i></u></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ext3</span> and <span style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ext4</span> filesystem includes support of ACLs on files and directories. ACL provides more control permissions on file than standard three access categories (owner, group and other ). Using ACL you can provide permission to specific user or group to file.<br /></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8PIUgbEhY7YRkoZkY_ycfUsaC1iFBDlfTI2RPseUTTGJFwqo_RxDQOGRx-81DG42DgZeHzXtC9PcieWNIbyVz53baCPbuyUP0WPC7WZ7rrW5NlG23aHC8o474ZV_Qau4j-mRYNWvZyhBg/s1600/acls_map_ext_www.hackthesec.co.in.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8PIUgbEhY7YRkoZkY_ycfUsaC1iFBDlfTI2RPseUTTGJFwqo_RxDQOGRx-81DG42DgZeHzXtC9PcieWNIbyVz53baCPbuyUP0WPC7WZ7rrW5NlG23aHC8o474ZV_Qau4j-mRYNWvZyhBg/s320/acls_map_ext_www.hackthesec.co.in.png" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Before working on <b>ACL </b>make sure that <b>ACL </b>is enabled on <b>mounted </b>file system. You can enable it during mounting filesystem with ACL option.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Use following command Check if ACL is enabled on filesystem or not.</span></div>
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/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (</span><span style="color: lime;">rw,noatime,<span style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">acl</span></span><span style="color: white;">)</span></span><span style="color: white; font-size: 0.9em;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Enable ACL by remounting file system using following command.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To enable ACL default on system bootup update following entry in <span style="color: #990000;">/etc/fstab</span> file.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Configure ACL on File</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If we want that user Bob to have all permissions on a file. Use following command.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Details of parameters:</span></div>
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 -m : is used to modify ACL.
  u : it denotes to assign permission to a user
bob : a system user
</span><span style="color: lime;">rwx : file permissions.
</span><span style="color: white;">hackthesec.txt: file on which bob will get access.</span></span><span style="color: white; font-size: 0.9em;">
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Check ACL on File</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Use following command to check ACL configured on a file.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Output:</span></div>
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# owner: root
# group: root
user::rw-
</span><span style="color: lime;"><span style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">user:Bob:rwx</span>
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mask::rwx
other::r--</span></span><span style="color: white; font-size: 0.9em;">
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Remove ACL from File</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If we don’t need the ACL in file, we can simply remove using following command.</span></div>
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How to Configure ACL in Linux FileSystem

Configure ACL in Linux FileSystem Ext3 and Ext4 filesystem includes support of ACLs on files and directories. ACL provides more cont...