Can a member of group ACL change the file mode?
Issue
An user that belongs to a group that has an ACL conceding rwx permissions to a file is unable to change the file modes, and chmod command returns the following error:
chmod: changing permissions of ‘file.txt’: Operation not permitted
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (all releases)
- ACL
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