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Chapter 8. Installing Basic System Software

8.27. Acl-2.3.2

The Acl package contains utilities to administer Access Control Lists, which are used to define fine-grained discretionary access rights for files and directories.

Approximate build time: less than 0.1 SBU
Required disk space: 6.5 MB

8.27.1. Installation of Acl

Prepare Acl for compilation: 

./configure --prefix=/usr    \
            --disable-static \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/acl-2.3.2

Compile the package: 

make

The Acl tests must be run on a filesystem that supports access controls. To test the results, issue: 

make check

One test named test/cp.test is known to fail because Coreutils is not built with the Acl support yet.

Install the package: 

make install

8.27.2. Installation of Acl - 32bit

Clean previous build: 

make distclean

Prepare Acl for compilation: 

CC="gcc -m32" ./configure   \
    --prefix=/usr           \
    --disable-static        \
    --libdir=/usr/lib32     \
    --libexecdir=/usr/lib32 \
    --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu

Compile the package: 

make

Install the package: 

make DESTDIR=$PWD/DESTDIR install
cp -Rv DESTDIR/usr/lib32/* /usr/lib32
rm -rf DESTDIR

8.27.3. Contents of Acl

Installed programs: chacl, getfacl, and setfacl
Installed library: libacl.so
Installed directories: /usr/include/acl and /usr/share/doc/acl-2.3.2

Short Descriptions

chacl

Changes the access control list of a file or directory

getfacl

Gets file access control lists

setfacl

Sets file access control lists

libacl

Contains the library functions for manipulating Access Control Lists