Hello Andreas, Here, some comments on the setrichacl(1) page. > .\" > .\" Richacl Manual Pages > .\" > .\" Copyright (C) 2015 Red Hat, Inc. > .\" Written by Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx> > .\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or > .\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as > .\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of > .\" the License, or (at your option) any later version. > .\" > .\" The GNU General Public License's references to "object code" > .\" and "executables" are to be interpreted as the output of any > .\" document formatting or typesetting system, including > .\" intermediate and printed output. > .\" > .\" This manual is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, > .\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of > .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the > .\" GNU General Public License for more details. > .\" > .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public > .\" License along with this manual. If not, see > .\" <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. > .\" > .TH SETRICHACL 7 2015-09-01 "Linux" "Rich Access Control Lists" > > .SH NAME > setrichacl \- Set Rich Access Control Lists > > .SH SYNOPSIS > .B setrichacl > .RI [ OPTION "]... [" FILE ]... In man-pages, at least, the convention is to use lower case for these pieces (and thus through the remainder of the page), so: > .RI [ option "]... [" file ]... > > .SH DESCRIPTION > The setrichacl utility sets or modifies Rich Access Control Lists (richacls) of .BR setrichacl > files and directories. > > The > .B \-m > and > .B \-s > options expect an ACL or parts of an ACL on the command line. The > .B \-M > and > .B \-S > options read an ACL or parts of an ACL from a file. In either case, the entry > format is described in section > .I TEXT FORM > of the richacl(7) manual page. The single-letter or long forms of flags and Use .BR richachl (7) for page cross references. > permissions can be mixed arbitrarily. Multiple entries are separated by > whitespace, newlines or commas. > > Note that the order of ACL entries matters, and that changing the order may > grant different permissions. > > The use of > .B deny > entries is discouraged. If > .B deny > entries are used, they should be placed ahead of > .B allow > entries for improved interoperability with Windows where possible. > > When the file masks are not specified, they are computed automatically. > > When the ACL to be set is simple enough that the traditional file permission > bits can express the same permissions, setrichacl instead only sets the file .BR setrichacl > permission bits. Minor differences that do not have an influence on the > permissions granted by the acl are not preserved. When setrichacl's s/acl/ACL/ .BR setrichacl 's > counterpart utility, getrichacl, is used on a file or directory that does not .BR getrichacl , > have a richacl, it displays the access permissions defined by the file > permission bits as a richacl. > > .SS Permissions > > Setting ACLs or changing the file permission bits is allowed to the file owner, > to processes which have the write_acl permission, and to processes which have .B write_acl > the CAP_FOWNER capability. .B CAP_FOWNER > > .SH OPTIONS > .TP > \-\-\fBmodify\fR \fIacl\fR, \fB\-m\fR \fIacl\fR > Modify the ACL of \fIFILE\fR by replacing existing entries with the entries in > \fIacl\fR, and adding all new entries. When the permissions of an entry are > empty, remove the entry. > .TP > \fB\-\-modify\-file\fR \fIacl_file\fR, \fB\-M\fR \fIacl_file\fR > Identical to \-\-modify, but read the ACL from \fIacl_file\fR instead. If the .B \-\-modify > file is \(lq\-\(rq, read from standard input. > .TP > \fB\-\-set\fR \fIacl\fR, \fB\-s\fR \fIacl\fR > Set the ACL of \fIFILE\fR to \fIacl\fR. Any previous ACL is replaced. > ACL entries are separated by whitespace, newlines, or commas. > .TP > \fB\-\-set\-file\fR \fIacl_file\fR, \fB\-S\fR \fIacl_file\fR > Identical to \-\-set, but read the ACL from \fIacl_file\fR instead. If the .BR \-\-set , > file is \(lq\-\(rq, read from standard input. > .TP > \fB\-\-remove\fR, \fB\-b\fR > Remove all extended permissions and revert to the file permission bits only. > .TP > \fB\-\-version\fR, \fB\-v\fR > Display the version of setrichacl and exit. .BR setrichacl > .TP > \fB\-\-help\fR, \fB\-h\fR > Display command-line usage help text. > > .\" .SH EXAMPLES Yes please! > .SH AUTHOR > Written by Andreas Grünbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx>. > > Please send your bug reports, suggested features and comments to the above address. > > .SH CONFORMING TO > Rich Access Control Lists are Linux-specific. > > .SH SEE ALSO > .BR getrichacl (1), > .BR richacl (7) Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
