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 Acl-&acl-version; Acl <para>The Acl package contains utilities to administer Access Control Lists, which are used to define more fine-grained discretionary access rights for files and directories.</para> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle> <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle> <seglistitem> <seg>&acl-ch6-sbu;</seg> <seg>&acl-ch6-du;</seg> </seglistitem> </segmentedlist> </sect2> <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Acl Modify the documentation directory so that it is a versioned directory: sed -i -e 's|/@pkg_name@|&-@pkg_version@|' include/builddefs.in Fix some broken tests: sed -i "s:| sed.*::g" test/{sbits-restore,cp,misc}.test Prepare Acl for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --bindir=/bin \ --libexecdir=/usr/lib Compile the package: make The Acl tests need to be run on a filesystem that supports access controls after Coreutils has been built with the Acl libraries. If desired, return to this package and run make tests after Coreutils has been built later in this chapter. Install the package: make install install-dev install-lib chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libacl.so The shared library needs to be moved to /lib, and as a result the .so file in /usr/lib will need to be recreated: mv -v /usr/lib/libacl.so.* /lib ln -sfv ../../lib/$(readlink /usr/lib/libacl.so) /usr/lib/libacl.so Contents of Acl Installed programs Installed library Installed directories chacl, getfacl, and setacl libacl.{a,so} /usr/include/acl, /usr/share/doc/acl-&acl-version; Short Descriptions chacl Changes the access control list of a file or directory. chacl getfacl Gets file access control lists. getfacl setacl Sets file access control lists. setacl libacl Contains the Acl API functions. libacl