[lug] Access control lists

[Shannon Johnston]

You can set ACL's on files if you reccompile your Kernel with the
grsecurity patch. www.grsecurity.org

Be careful though, the learning curve on that patch is very frustrating.

Shannon Johnston


On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 22:22, D. Stimits wrote:
> Terry Branaman wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to set up an ACL on a file, but I get the following:
> >
> > # setfacl -m mask:7 foo
> > setfacl: foo: Operation not supported
> >
> > I am running Mandrake 9.0, and have installed
> > libacl1-2.0.11-1mdk.i586.rpm, libattr1-2.0.8-1mdk.i586.rpm,
> > acl-2.0.11-1mdk.i586.rpm, and attr-2.0.8-1mdk.i586.rpm. The file is on
> > an ext3 partition.
> >
> > What am I missing? Is there something else that I need to install? Or
> > how to I enable ACLs? I haven't been able to find any HOWTOs on this.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Terry Branaman
> >
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> Are you sure that ext2/3 supports ACL's? Not that I know they *don't*, 
> but I wasn't aware of ACL support on those systems...I use XFS where 
> ACL's are required.
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits At attbi.com
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