From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 17 08:05:01 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 279131065672 for ; Sat, 17 Jul 2010 08:05:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from sola.nimnet.asn.au (paqi.nimnet.asn.au [115.70.110.159]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9598C8FC15 for ; Sat, 17 Jul 2010 08:05:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sola.nimnet.asn.au (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o6H84uOP068638; Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:04:57 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:04:56 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: Jerry In-Reply-To: <20100716112652.C24C9106577E@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: <20100717171252.V86988@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20100716112652.C24C9106577E@hub.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Carmel , Ashish SHUKLA , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GUI for ACL X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 08:05:01 -0000 In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 319, Issue 9, Message: 24 On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:26:18 -0400 Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:17:25 +0530 > Ashish SHUKLA 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/ cheers, Ian