topic Re: acl option on redhat9 in Operating System - Linux

acl option on redhat9

K.C. Chan — Sun, 02 Jan 2005 14:00:16 GMT

Is the acl option available on redhat9? Thanks.

FYI, I have asked similar question to a related thread ( http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=766980 ), but I figure it wasn't fair to people who answer w/o me bieng able to assign points. Hence it reposted here.

Re: acl option on redhat9

twang — Sun, 02 Jan 2005 22:03:00 GMT

"Access Control Lists" is used for permissions on an NT system. I think Samba should support acl. And you could "man acl" to find out more about acl on linux.

Re: acl option on redhat9

Nobody's Hero — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 13:02:45 GMT

Yes ACL's are alive in RH9. I have a production linux server running samba and all authentication and access permissions are handled from the NT side. You need a special kernel to handle ACL's. We are running 2.4.19-xfs. It was a lot of work to get NT and UNIX to talk and play well, but once it is in place, it works great. We grant/deny directory access through windows, for directories that sit on a Linux system.

To backup the ACL's on the UNIX side, we use star instead of tar. See man star for acl options.

Re: acl option on redhat9

Chris Xu — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 14:46:20 GMT

Yes, it is available on Redhat 9. To confirm the packages are indeed installed on your system, do this:
rpm -qa | grep acl

Chris

Re: acl option on redhat9

Ivajlo Yanakiev — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 12:54:57 GMT

I know thaht it is part of Fedora 3