setup linux Access control Lists
 

I want to setup some access control lists on some directories to make it more feasible on the user security

I create a group name, test1
I create a user name, marry and put in group test1

there is a directory, \home\test

drwxr-xr-x peter peter test


now I want to assign group test1 on directory \home\test with permission rwx

in traditional unix security, I should put marry on group peter but since peter group has only r-x and I want rwx, therefore I should use Linux access control lists to accomplish my task

I use this command

>setfacl -m g:test1:rwx /home/test

but I got an error msg
setfacl: test: Function not implemented


Who has experience on Linux ACL ? Pls help me


PS I am using RedHat 8.0 , bundle Kernel

setfacl: test: Function not implemented
I don't use Linux ACL, but maybe you should check you're not dealing with wrong syntax.

Redhat have removed ACL support from the kernel as this caused stability problems in the first two betas for version 8.0

You can patch the kernel to add the support back into the kernel,

the following site seems to have all the required patches to kernel and utilities. Although I have not yet successfully patched my kernel with the supplied updates (not saying that it is not possible as I am only learning, and probably have missed some step in the kernel compilation.)

http://acl.bestbits.at

Good luck.