ACL (Access Crontrol List) HowTo?

[Worapoj P.]

Dear all expert,
I could to setup ACL on RedHat8.0 with LVM?
Q1: Is can or not?
Q2: If can how to?

Thanks advanced for you helps.
Best Regards,
Worapoj P

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

you can use current ext3 file system's abilities, i.e permissions for: user, group, others.
As for ACL as you know it in Windows-there's still no such thing, but in next kernel generation (perhaps in 2.6) there will be- so they say.
By the way there's no difference in setting permission on LVM or the regular partitions.

[Jerome Henry]

Hi !

The fact that you use LVM doesn' make any difference as far as access control is concerned.

As for access control, you have several ways :

- define rights as usual (rwx, ask if you want more details)
- set up firewalling rules, with netfilter for example (http://www.netfilter.org ), once again ask if you want details.
- Use the acl patch to your kernel
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/rawhide/1.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/acl-2.2.3-3.i386.html
You have set up details here
http://acl.bestbits.at/
Once again ask if required.

hth

J

[Zeev Schultz]

Here http://acl.bestbits.at/
and here http://acl.bestbits.at/download.html
Supports both ext2fs and ext3fs.

Zeev