source: BOOK/final-system/common/acl.xml@ 5894b06

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<sect1 id="ch-system-acl" role="wrap">
  <?dbhtml filename="acl.html"?>

  <title>ACL-&acl-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-acl">
    <primary sortas="a-ACL">ACL</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para>ACL is a library for getting and setting POSIX Access Control Lists.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of ACL</title>

    <para os="a">Prepare ACL for compilation:</para>

<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib</userinput></screen>

    <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>

<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

    <para os="e">This package does not come with a test suite.</para>

    <para os="f">Install the package:</para>

<screen os="g"><userinput>make install install-dev install-lib</userinput></screen>

    <para os="h">Move the shared library to <filename class="directory">/lib</filename>
    and recreate the symlink in <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename>:</para>

<screen os="i"><userinput>mv -v /usr/lib/libacl.so.* /lib
ln -sfv ../../lib/libacl.so.1 /usr/lib/libacl.so</userinput></screen>

    <para os="j">Set the proper permissions on the shared library:</para>

<screen os="k"><userinput>chmod 755 -v /lib/libacl.so.1.1.0</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-acl" role="content">
    <title>Contents of ACL</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>chacl, getfacl, setfacl</seg>
        <seg>libattr.[a,so]</seg>
        <seg>/usr/include/acl, /usr/share/doc/acl</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="chacl">
        <term><command>chacl</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Changes the access control list of a file or directory</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-acl chacl">
            <primary sortas="b-chacl">chacl</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="getfacl">
        <term><command>getfacl</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Get file access control lists</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-acl getfacl">
            <primary sortas="b-getfacl">getfacl</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="setfacl">
        <term><command>setfacl</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Set file access control lists</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-acl setfacl">
            <primary sortas="b-setfacl">setfacl</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libacl">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libacl</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Library to manage access control lists</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-acl libacl">
            <primary sortas="c-libacl">libacl</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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