Can a member of group ACL change the file mode?

Solution Verified - Updated -

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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