Re: fsaclctl: MIA in Snow Leopard
Re: fsaclctl: MIA in Snow Leopard
- Subject: Re: fsaclctl: MIA in Snow Leopard
- From: Nathan Gray <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:25:53 -0700
Hi Terry,
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Terry Lambert <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Sep 15, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Nathan Gray wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> My Backup Bouncer metadata test suite used to use fsaclctl to enable
>> ACLs on its test volumes but that program has vanished from snow
>> leopard. Can anybody tell me what the procedure for
>> enabling/disabling ACLs is now? I've searched for ACL/acl in the man
>> pages for hdiutil, mount_hfs, diskutil, etc. without luck.
>
> It is enabled by default, and has been since Leopard.
Ah, OK. It turns out my chmod +a ... was failing for some other
reason and I assumed it was related to the failure to find fsaclctl.
Thanks!
> The call to allow it to be enabled/disabled on the fly is to do an fsctl on
> the volume with the HFS_SETACLSTATE operand. Note that you will need to run
> as root for this to be effective.
I probably don't need it after all, but that's good to know.
Thanks,
-n8
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