Solaris ACL tutorial material

2007-12-25 10:02:00

Thanks for pointers received. I should, of course, have mentioned that the

specific aspect I'm having trouble with is the area of default ACL entries

for directories, about which I can find precious little out there on the web.

There are articles at SunWorld Online:

http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-08-1996/swol-08-security.html

http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-06-1998/swol-06-insidesolaris.html

that go as far as anyone goes. The particularly knotty part is that the

implementation of default ACL entries, as far as `what happens when a file is

created' is concerned, changed between 2.6 and 7, it seems. On 2.6 and

earlier, the umask is used in determining initial permissions, but on 7 (and,

presumably, later?) it isn't. This is reflected in a change in the last

paragraph of the `DESCRIPTION' entry on the setfacl(1) manual page. Because

I wasn't being too fussy about which box I tested things out on, I was getting

inconsistent results and I couldn't see why. Now that I _know_ they're

_supposed_ to be different, I can go round again...

Thanks,

Sam.

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