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Giving a single user write permissions

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I want to grant a single user write permissions to a directory owned by root over command line. With chmod, it seems that I can only change the permissions for owner, group and other, not for a specific user.

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answered 2 Years ago defendle · Accepted Answer

If filesystem is mounted with the acl option (default in ext4 in any modern Ubuntu - if not, add it to /etc/fstab), you can use setfacl:

setfacl -m u:USERNAME:r FILENAME

would give user USERNAME read access to FILENAME.