Help for Access Control Lists

Use this form to specify the name of a directory that you want to protect with an access control list (ACL) file.

ACL Files

You can use ACL files to limit access to specific files on a directory that is already protected by a protection setup.

Usually, a protection setup is used to define the first level of access control and then an ACL file further limits access. However, when you want all control to come from an ACL file, you can override a protection setup by checking the Allow any ACL file to override masks on the Protection Setup form.

ACL files are named .www_acl and placed on the protected directory. Each protected directory can have only one ACL file.

To specify a directory that you want to create an ACL file for:

Enter the fully qualified path name of the directory in the Directory field.
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