GUI for ACL

[Jerry]

On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:04:56 +1000 (EST)
Ian Smith <smithi at nimnet.asn.au> articulated:


> In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 319, Issue 9, Message: 24
> On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:26:18 -0400 Jerry <freebsd.user at seibercom.net> wrote:
>  > On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:17:25 +0530
>  > Ashish SHUKLA <ashish at FreeBSD.org> articulated:
>  > 
>  > > I've not used KDE since they released KDE 4, but IIRC, KDE 3.5.x used to have
>  > > ACL support integrated in it[1] by default. Are you sure there isn't any such
>  > > setting you probably missing during compilation in KDE 4.x ?
>  > > 
>  > > References:
>  > > [1]  http://www.flickr.com/photos/wahjava/507889368/#/
>  > 
>  > No really. You cannot add users or change individual user's permissions
>  > via KDE's default file browser. Obviously, I can accomplish most of
>  > what I want to do from the command line, abet more slowly and error
>  > prone.
> 
> Does that represent a regression in KDE4 from KDE3.5.x?
> 
>  > Having read up on a few Googled items, it appears that FreeBSD has not
>  > matured sufficiently yet to allow full integration of ACLs. Supposedly,
>  > 9.x will offer better integration.
> 
> Integration with what?  KDE?
> 
> Perhaps I googled a little harder Jerry, but thanks to Robert Watson's 
> TrustedBSD framework, FreeBSD has supported POSIX 1.e ACLs since 5.1 and 
> NFSv4 ACLs in 8-STABLE for quite a while now; they'll be in 8.1-RELEASE 
> for both UFS and ZFS filesystems.
> 
> Maybe it's the predominantly Linux-centric KDE that has not yet matured 
> sufficiently to include support for FreeBSD ACLs?  As Carmel memtioned, 
> the (as usual) excellent article by Dru Lavigne on using FreeBSD ACLs at 
> http://onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/09/22/FreeBSD_Basics.html demonstrated 
> using Gnome's Nautilus enhanced by the port sysutils/eiciel - in 2005.
> 
> Among the many other useful results from googling 'FreeBSD ACLs':
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_control_list
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/NFSv4_ACLs
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/8.1TODO/

Per wiki: "support so called POSIX.1e ACLs, based on an early POSIX
draft that was abandoned".

My original statement is still valid, FreeBSD has still not released a
stable version of its OS that fully supports the latest acl standards.

-- 
Jerry ✌
FreeBSD.user at seibercom.net

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