setfacl: Invalid argument near character

1 · Benjamin Cane · June 25, 2011, 1:24 a.m.
Found out today that sometimes setfacl doesn't return an informative error. Example: # setfacl -m u:someguy:rx test2 setfacl: Option -m: Invalid argument near character 3 The reason you get this error is because the someguy user does not exist. Setfacl will give the same error for groups that do not exist as well....