Creating Public, Project, and Friends Directories 1. Under AFS, permissions are set by directory not by file. Every file in a directory has the same permission.
New directories inherit the parent's permissions.
An ACL may have up to twenty entries. A user needs Lookup privilege to a parent directory as well to access asubdirectory of or file in a directory. This includes chmod permissions. Insert Allows user to add new files and create new subdirectories. Administer Allows user to change the ACL for a directory.