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>Modify the documentation directory so that it is a versioned
  46     directory:</para>
  47
  48 <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i -e 's|/@pkg_name@|&amp;-@pkg_version@|' include/builddefs.in</userinput></screen>
  49
  50     <para>Fix some broken tests:</para>
  51
  52 <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i "s:| sed.*::g" test/{sbits-restore,cp,misc}.test</userinput></screen>
  53
  54     <para>Additionally, fix a bug that causes <command>getfacl -e</command>
  55     to segfault on overly long group name:</para>
  56
  57 <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i -e "/TABS-1;/a if (x > (TABS-1)) x = (TABS-1);" \
  58     libacl/__acl_to_any_text.c</userinput></screen>
  59
  60     <para>Prepare Acl for compilation:</para>
  61
  62 <screen revision="sysv"><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr    \
  63             --bindir=/bin    \
  64             --disable-static \
  65             --libexecdir=/usr/lib</userinput></screen>
  66
  67 <screen revision="systemd"><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr    \
  68             --disable-static \
  69             --libexecdir=/usr/lib</userinput></screen>
  70
  71     <para>Compile the package:</para>
  72
  73 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
  74
  75     <para>The Acl tests need to be run on a filesystem that supports access
  76     controls after <application>Coreutils</application> has been built with the
  77     Acl libraries.  If desired, return to this package and run <command>make -j1
  78     tests</command> after <application>Coreutils</application> has been built
  79     later in this chapter.</para>
  80
  81     <para>Install the package:</para>
  82
  83 <screen><userinput remap="install">make install install-dev install-lib
  84 chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libacl.so</userinput></screen>
  85
  86     <para>The shared library needs to be moved to
  87     <filename class="directory">/lib</filename>, and as a result the
  88     <filename class="extension">.so</filename> file in
  89     <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> will need to be recreated:</para>
  90
  91 <screen><userinput remap="install">mv -v /usr/lib/libacl.so.* /lib
  92 ln -sfv ../../lib/$(readlink /usr/lib/libacl.so) /usr/lib/libacl.so</userinput></screen>
  93
  94   </sect2>
  95
  96   <sect2 id="contents-acl" role="content">
  97     <title>Contents of Acl</title>
  98
  99     <segmentedlist>
 100       <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
 101       <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
 102       <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
 103
 104       <seglistitem>
 105         <seg>chacl, getfacl, and setacl</seg>
 106         <seg>libacl.so</seg>
 107         <seg>/usr/include/acl and /usr/share/doc/acl-&acl-version;</seg>
 108       </seglistitem>
 109     </segmentedlist>
 110
 111     <variablelist>
 112       <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
 113       <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
 114       <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
 115
 116       <varlistentry id="chacl">
 117         <term><command>chacl</command></term>
 118         <listitem>
 119           <para>Changes the access control list of a file
 120           or directory</para>
 121           <indexterm zone="ch-system-acl chacl">
 122             <primary sortas="b-chacl">chacl</primary>
 123           </indexterm>
 124         </listitem>
 125       </varlistentry>
 126
 127       <varlistentry id="getfacl">
 128         <term><command>getfacl</command></term>
 129         <listitem>
 130           <para>Gets file access control lists</para>
 131           <indexterm zone="ch-system-acl getfacl">
 132             <primary sortas="b-getfacl">getfacl</primary>
 133           </indexterm>
 134         </listitem>
 135       </varlistentry>
 136
 137       <varlistentry id="setacl">
 138         <term><command>setacl</command></term>
 139         <listitem>
 140           <para>Sets file access control lists</para>
 141           <indexterm zone="ch-system-acl setacl">
 142             <primary sortas="b-setacl">setacl</primary>
 143           </indexterm>
 144         </listitem>
 145       </varlistentry>
 146
 147       <varlistentry id="libacl">
 148         <term><filename class="libraryfile">libacl</filename></term>
 149         <listitem>
 150           <para>Contains the  library functions for manipulating Access Control Lists</para>
 151           <indexterm zone="ch-system-acl libacl">
 152             <primary sortas="c-libacl">libacl</primary>
 153           </indexterm>
 154         </listitem>
 155       </varlistentry>
 156
 157     </variablelist>
 158
 159   </sect2>
 160
 161 </sect1>