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setfacl

AccountsPackage: acl

Adds rights to a file that the usual nine characters cannot express: one specific account for reading, one more group for writing. ls -l then shows only a +; the rest is read with getfacl.

What its options do in the lessons

From the same glossary the lessons render under their commands, so the two cannot disagree.

setfacl -m
Adds or modifies one entry in the list: u:carol:rX grants that single account read, plus traversal when the entry targets a directory — without touching the owner, the group or others.

Lessons that teach it

No lesson names it among its useful commands; it appears inside other lessons' command lines.