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Unix: How can I allow only one person to see my folder in the same fs?

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Mar 15, 20266546 views
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Problem

I want to give an access to a dir for a friend. He has the access to the file system, where the dir is located. I don't want to set the permissions to all users. How can I allow only a person to see the dir? None of us is a superuser. [BOUNTY CHALLENGE] None of the replies work, using Ubuntu: 1. ja…

Error Output

$ setfacl -m user:friend:rwx classroom.xml 
setfacl: classroom.xml: Operation not supported

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Fix for: Unix: How can I allow only one person to see my folder in the same fs?

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With just normal UNIX permissions (user, group, everyone), you can't do this easily. If you don't need access to the directory anymore, you can possibly change the owner of the directory to your friend, which is valid on some Unices, but most of the…

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