Default folder/file created ACL permissions not correct

I have applied the following settings to my core html folder:

chown :ftpaccess html -R
chmod 0775 html -R
setfacl -R -d -m group:ftpaccess:rwx html

However whenever anyone creates a new file or folder in the html (or subfolder) it doesn't default to user:ftpaccess with 0775 permissions.

What I get (created as root in nano is):

getfacl test2.txt
# file: test2.txt
# owner: root
# group: root
user::rw-
group::rwx #effective:rw-
group:ftpaccess:rwx #effective:rw-
mask::rw-
other::r--

What do I need to do to make this apply to subdirectories? I thought the -d would have fixed that. Is it something to do with sticky ?

2 Answers

you have to set the default for the user also:

setfacl -R -d -m user:ftpaccess:rwx html

the above command will set the default for the existing folder recursively, if you want apply this ACL for files and folder remove the -d options.

So it appears I am not alone in my problems - and I have since found this great article from 2010:

It would appear that I haven't also re-mounted the partition which would account for why it didn't work as well as running chmod g+s html.