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><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr    \
  63             --disable-static \
  64             --libexecdir=/usr/lib</userinput></screen>
  65
  66     <para>Compile the package:</para>
  67
  68 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
  69
  70     <para>The Acl tests need to be run on a filesystem that supports access
  71     controls after <application>Coreutils</application> has been built with the
  72     Acl libraries.  If desired, return to this package and run <command>make -j1
  73     tests</command> after <application>Coreutils</application> has been built
  74     later in this chapter.</para>
  75
  76     <para>Install the package:</para>
  77
  78 <screen><userinput remap="install">make install install-dev install-lib
  79 chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libacl.so</userinput></screen>
  80
  81     <para>The shared library needs to be moved to
  82     <filename class="directory">/lib</filename>, and as a result the
  83     <filename class="extension">.so</filename> file in
  84     <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> will need to be recreated:</para>
  85
  86 <screen><userinput remap="install">mv -v /usr/lib/libacl.so.* /lib
  87 ln -sfv ../../lib/$(readlink /usr/lib/libacl.so) /usr/lib/libacl.so</userinput></screen>
  88
  89   </sect2>
  90
  91   <sect2 id="contents-acl" role="content">
  92     <title>Contents of Acl</title>
  93
  94     <segmentedlist>
  95       <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
  96       <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
  97       <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
  98
  99       <seglistitem>
 100         <seg>chacl, getfacl, and setacl</seg>
 101         <seg>libacl.so</seg>
 102         <seg>/usr/include/acl and /usr/share/doc/acl-&acl-version;</seg>
 103       </seglistitem>
 104     </segmentedlist>
 105
 106     <variablelist>
 107       <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
 108       <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
 109       <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
 110
 111       <varlistentry id="chacl">
 112         <term><command>chacl</command></term>
 113         <listitem>
 114           <para>Changes the access control list of a file
 115           or directory</para>
 116           <indexterm zone="ch-system-acl chacl">
 117             <primary sortas="b-chacl">chacl</primary>
 118           </indexterm>
 119         </listitem>
 120       </varlistentry>
 121
 122       <varlistentry id="getfacl">
 123         <term><command>getfacl</command></term>
 124         <listitem>
 125           <para>Gets file access control lists</para>
 126           <indexterm zone="ch-system-acl getfacl">
 127             <primary sortas="b-getfacl">getfacl</primary>
 128           </indexterm>
 129         </listitem>
 130       </varlistentry>
 131
 132       <varlistentry id="setacl">
 133         <term><command>setacl</command></term>
 134         <listitem>
 135           <para>Sets file access control lists</para>
 136           <indexterm zone="ch-system-acl setacl">
 137             <primary sortas="b-setacl">setacl</primary>
 138           </indexterm>
 139         </listitem>
 140       </varlistentry>
 141
 142       <varlistentry id="libacl">
 143         <term><filename class="libraryfile">libacl</filename></term>
 144         <listitem>
 145           <para>Contains the  library functions for manipulating Access Control Lists</para>
 146           <indexterm zone="ch-system-acl libacl">
 147             <primary sortas="c-libacl">libacl</primary>
 148           </indexterm>
 149         </listitem>
 150       </varlistentry>
 151
 152     </variablelist>
 153
 154   </sect2>
 155
 156 </sect1>