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sys/ufs/ufs/README.acls

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       UFS Access Control Lists Copyright
     
     The UFS Access Control Lists implementation is copyright Robert Watson,
     and is made available under a Berkeley-style license.
     
       About UFS Access Control Lists (ACLs)
     
    Access control lists allow the association of fine-grained discretionary
    access control information with files and directories, extending the
    base UNIX permission model in a (mostly) compatible way.  This
    implementation largely follows the POSIX.1e model, and relies on the
    availability of extended attributes to store extended components of
    the ACL, while maintaining the base permission information in the inode.
    
      Using UFS Access Control Lists (ACLs)
    
    Support for UFS access control lists may be enabled by adding:
    
            options UFS_ACL
    
    to your kernel configuration.  As ACLs rely on the availability of extended
    attributes, your file systems must have support for extended attributes.
    For UFS2, this is supported natively, so no further configuration is
    necessary.  For UFS1, you must also enable the optional extended attributes
    support documented in README.extattr.  A summary of the instructions
    and ACL-specific information follows.
    
    To enable support for ACLs on a file system, the 'acls' mount flag
    must be set for the file system.  This may be set using the tunefs
    '-a' flag:
    
            tunefs -a enable /dev/md0a
    
    Or by using the mount-time flag:
    
            mount -o acls /dev/md0a /mnt
    
    The flag may also be set in /etc/fstab.  Note that mounting a file
    system previously configured for ACLs without ACL-support will result
    in incorrect application of discretionary protections.  Likewise,
    mounting an ACL-enabled file system without kernel support for ACLs
    will result in incorrect application of discretionary protections.  If
    the kernel is not configured for ACL support, a warning will be
    printed by the kernel at mount-time.  For reliability purposes, it
    is recommended that the superblock flag be used instead of the
    mount-time flag, as this will avoid re-mount isses with the root file
    system.  For reliability and performance reasons, the use of ACLs on
    UFS1 is discouraged; UFS2 extended attributes provide a more reliable
    storage mechanism for ACLs.
    
    Currently, support for ACLs on UFS1 requires the use of UFS1 EAs, which may
    be enabled by adding:
    
            options UFS_EXTATTR
    
    to your kernel configuration file and rebuilding.  Because of filesystem
    mount atomicity requirements, it is also recommended that:
    
            options UFS_EXTATTR_AUTOSTART
    
    be added to the kernel so as to support the atomic enabling of the
    required extended attributes with the filesystem mount operation.  To
    enable ACLs, two extended attributes must be available in the
    EXTATTR_NAMESPACE_SYSTEM namespace: "posix1e.acl_access", which holds
    the access ACL, and "posix1e.acl_default" which holds the default ACL
    for directories.  If you're using UFS1 Extended Attributes, the following
    commands may be used to create the necessary EA backing files for
    ACLs in the filesystem root of each filesystem.  In these examples,
    the root filesystem is used; see README.extattr for more details.
    
      mkdir -p /.attribute/system
      cd /.attribute/system
      extattrctl initattr -p / 388 posix1e.acl_access
      extattrctl initattr -p / 388 posix1e.acl_default
    
    On the next mount of the root filesystem, the attributes will be
    automatically started, and ACLs will be enabled.

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