chapter06/acl.xml

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   8 <sect1 id="ch-system-acl" role="wrap">
   9   <?dbhtml filename="acl.html"?>
  10
  11   <sect1info condition="script">
  12     <productname>acl</productname>
  13     <productnumber>&acl-version;</productnumber>
  14     <address>&acl-url;</address>
  15   </sect1info>
  16
  17   <title>Acl-&acl-version;</title>
  18
  19   <indexterm zone="ch-system-acl">
  20     <primary sortas="a-Acl">Acl</primary>
  21   </indexterm>
  22
  23   <sect2 role="package">
  24     <title/>
  25
  26     <para>The Acl package contains utilities to administer Access Control Lists,
  27     which are used to define more fine-grained discretionary access rights for
  28     files and directories.</para>
  29
  30     <segmentedlist>
  31       <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
  32       <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
  33
  34       <seglistitem>
  35         <seg>&acl-ch6-sbu;</seg>
  36         <seg>&acl-ch6-du;</seg>
  37       </seglistitem>
  38     </segmentedlist>
  39
  40   </sect2>
  41
  42   <sect2 role="installation">
  43     <title>Installation of Acl</title>
  44
  45     <para>Prepare Acl for compilation:</para>
  46
  47 <screen revision="sysv"><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr         \
  48             --bindir=/bin         \
  49             --disable-static      \
  50             --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
  51             --docdir=/usr/share/doc/acl-&acl-version;</userinput></screen>
  52
  53 <screen revision="systemd"><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr         \
  54             --disable-static      \
  55             --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
  56             --docdir=/usr/share/doc/acl-&acl-version;</userinput></screen>
  57
  58     <para>Compile the package:</para>
  59
  60 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
  61
  62     <para>The Acl tests need to be run on a filesystem that supports access
  63     controls after <application>Coreutils</application> has been built with the
  64     Acl libraries.  If desired, return to this package and run <command>make
  65     check</command> after <application>Coreutils</application> has been built
  66     later in this chapter.</para>
  67
  68     <para>Install the package:</para>
  69
  70 <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
  71
  72     <para>The shared library needs to be moved to
  73     <filename class="directory">/lib</filename>, and as a result the
  74     <filename class="extension">.so</filename> file in
  75     <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> will need to be recreated:</para>
  76
  77 <screen><userinput remap="install">mv -v /usr/lib/libacl.so.* /lib
  78 ln -sfv ../../lib/$(readlink /usr/lib/libacl.so) /usr/lib/libacl.so</userinput></screen>
  79
  80   </sect2>
  81
  82   <sect2 id="contents-acl" role="content">
  83     <title>Contents of Acl</title>
  84
  85     <segmentedlist>
  86       <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
  87       <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
  88       <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
  89
  90       <seglistitem>
  91         <seg>chacl, getfacl, and setfacl</seg>
  92         <seg>libacl.so</seg>
  93         <seg>/usr/include/acl and /usr/share/doc/acl-&acl-version;</seg>
  94       </seglistitem>
  95     </segmentedlist>
  96
  97     <variablelist>
  98       <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
  99       <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
 100       <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
 101
 102       <varlistentry id="chacl">
 103         <term><command>chacl</command></term>
 104         <listitem>
 105           <para>Changes the access control list of a file
 106           or directory</para>
 107           <indexterm zone="ch-system-acl chacl">
 108             <primary sortas="b-chacl">chacl</primary>
 109           </indexterm>
 110         </listitem>
 111       </varlistentry>
 112
 113       <varlistentry id="getfacl">
 114         <term><command>getfacl</command></term>
 115         <listitem>
 116           <para>Gets file access control lists</para>
 117           <indexterm zone="ch-system-acl getfacl">
 118             <primary sortas="b-getfacl">getfacl</primary>
 119           </indexterm>
 120         </listitem>
 121       </varlistentry>
 122
 123       <varlistentry id="setfacl">
 124         <term><command>setfacl</command></term>
 125         <listitem>
 126           <para>Sets file access control lists</para>
 127           <indexterm zone="ch-system-acl setfacl">
 128             <primary sortas="b-setfacl">setfacl</primary>
 129           </indexterm>
 130         </listitem>
 131       </varlistentry>
 132
 133       <varlistentry id="libacl">
 134         <term><filename class="libraryfile">libacl</filename></term>
 135         <listitem>
 136           <para>Contains the  library functions for manipulating Access Control Lists</para>
 137           <indexterm zone="ch-system-acl libacl">
 138             <primary sortas="c-libacl">libacl</primary>
 139           </indexterm>
 140         </listitem>
 141       </varlistentry>
 142
 143     </variablelist>
 144
 145   </sect2>
 146
 147 </sect1>