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| author | Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> | 2001-08-06 02:41:49 +0000 |
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| committer | Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> | 2001-08-06 02:41:49 +0000 |
| commit | f1479ac3d3bf18193bf24d6e1a09bd9726ac72d4 (patch) | |
| tree | 7ff1efc242848c8a77b636e0e1c68404d9c2b3e3 /README | |
| parent | d83011a4a2e9ece813eb960e95ccd9dbf2def385 (diff) | |
| download | acl-f1479ac3d3bf18193bf24d6e1a09bd9726ac72d4.tar.gz | |
add in Andreas Gruenbacher's ACL userspace tools, unchanged.
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@@ -1,15 +1,28 @@ Access Control List package README __________________________________ -See the file doc/INSTALL for build, installation and post- -install configuration steps. +See the file doc/INSTALL for build and installation notes. -Refer to the acl(5) manual page for general access control list +Refer to the acl(5) manual page for general Access Control List (ACL) information and references to other ACL manual pages. +The pioneering work on Linux ACLs for the ext2 filesystem was +mostly done by Andreas Gruenbacher <a.gruenbacher@computer.org>. +The getfacl and setfacl source code in this package (below the +"facl" subdirectory) was implemented by Andreas, he also wrote +the associated man pages, and his ACL website is a good source +of information on the subject: + + http://acl.bestbits.at/ + For more information and details on how to contribute to the XFS project see the web pages at: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ +Most of the initial porting work (from IRIX/XFS to Linux/XFS) +to provide ACL support and integration with Samba, was done by +developers at Connex -- the doc/CREDITS file in the xfsprogs +package has contact details for these folk. + For more information on the build process, please refer to the doc/PORTING document. |