To set the Access Control List (ACL) for an S3 object using s3cmd, you can follow these steps:
Install s3cmd: If you haven't installed s3cmd already, you can install it by running the appropriate command for your operating system. For example, on Ubuntu you can use the command sudo apt-get install s3cmd
.
Configure s3cmd: Once installed, you need to configure s3cmd with your AWS credentials. Run the command s3cmd --configure
and follow the instructions to provide your AWS access key and secret key.
Set the ACL: Now you can set the ACL for an S3 object using the setacl
command. The basic syntax is s3cmd setacl --acl-<PERMISSION> s3://<BUCKET_NAME>/<OBJECT_KEY>
. Replace <PERMISSION>
with the desired permission level, and <BUCKET_NAME>
and <OBJECT_KEY>
with the appropriate S3 bucket and object key.
For example, to set the ACL to private for an object named "file.jpg" in a bucket named "my-bucket", you can use the following command:
s3cmd setacl --acl-private s3://my-bucket/file.jpg
Similarly, you can set other ACL permissions, such as public-read
, public-read-write
, authenticated-read
, etc., by replacing --acl-private
with the desired permission option.
That's it! You have successfully set the ACL for an S3 object using s3cmd.