FYI, as folks have talked about the benefits of being chmod-like, the Solaris chmod ACL syntax is (ignoring the indexed options): A- Remove all ACEs, replace with equivalent of file mode A-${ACLSPEC} Remove ACEs specified by ${ACLSPEC} A=${ACLSPEC} Replace the entire ACL with ${ACLSPEC} A+${ACLSPEC} Prepend ACEs specified by ${ACLSPEC} to ACL -- Carson