permissions_posix_acls_absent

Ensure that files or directories has no ACLs set.

⚙️ Compatible targets: Linux

Parameters

Name	Documentation
path	Path of the file or directory. This parameter is required.
recursive	Should ACLs cleanup be recursive, "true" or "false" (defaults to "false"). Choices: `true` `false` This parameter is optional.

Outcome conditions

You need to replace ${path} with its actual canonified value.

✅ Ok: permissions_posix_acls_absent_${path}_ok
- ☑️ Already compliant: permissions_posix_acls_absent_${path}_kept
- 🟨 Repaired: permissions_posix_acls_absent_${path}_repaired
❌ Error: permissions_posix_acls_absent_${path}_error

Example

method: permissions_posix_acls_absent
params:
  recursive: 'true'
  path: VALUE

Documentation

The permissions_*acl_* manage the POSIX ACL on files and directories.

Parameters

Path

Path can be globbing with the following format:

- matches any filename or directory at one level, e.g. *.cf will match all files in one directory that end in .cf but it won't search across directories. /.cf on the other hand will look two levels deep.
? matches a single letter
[a-z] matches any letter from a to z
{x,y,anything} will match x or y or anything.

Recursive

Can be:

true to apply the given aces to folder and sub-folders and files.
or false to apply to the strict match of Path

If left blank, recursivity will automatically be set to false

Example

The method has basically the same effect as setfacl -b <path>.

Given a file with the following getfacl output:

root@server# getfacl /tmp/myTestFile 
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: tmp/myTestFile
# owner: root
# group: root
user::rwx
user:vagrant:rwx
group::r--
mask::rwx
other::---

It will remove all ACLs, and only let classic rights, here:

root@server# getfacl myTestFile 
# file: myTestFile
# owner: root
# group: root
user::rwx
group::r--
other::---

root@server# ls -l myTestFile
-rwxr----- 1 root root 0 Mar 22 11:24 myTestFile
root@server#