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diff --git a/doc/legacy/docbook/admin_ACLs.xml b/doc/legacy/docbook/admin_ACLs.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 156e52c17..000000000 --- a/doc/legacy/docbook/admin_ACLs.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,206 +0,0 @@ -<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> -<!-- This document was created with Syntext Serna Free. --><!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "docbookV4.5/docbookx.dtd" []> -<chapter id="chap-Administration_Guide-ACLs"> - <title>POSIX Access Control Lists </title> - <para>POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) allows you to assign different permissions for different users or -groups even though they do not correspond to the original owner or the owning group. - </para> - <para>For example: User john creates a file but does not want to allow anyone to do anything with this -file, except another user, antony (even though there are other users that belong to the group john). -</para> - <para>This means, in addition to the file owner, the file group, and others, additional users and groups can -be granted or denied access by using POSIX ACLs. -</para> - <section id="sect-Administration_Guide-ACLs-Activating_ACLs"> - <title>Activating POSIX ACLs Support </title> - <para>To use POSIX ACLs for a file or directory, the partition of the file or directory must be mounted with -POSIX ACLs support. -</para> - <section id="sect-Administration_Guide-ACLs-Activating_ACLs-Server"> - <title>Activating POSIX ACLs Support on Sever </title> - <para>To mount the backend export directories for POSIX ACLs support, use the following command: -</para> - <para><command># mount -o acl <replaceable>device-name</replaceable><replaceable>partition</replaceable></command> -</para> - <para>For example: -</para> - <para><command># mount -o acl /dev/sda1 /export1 </command></para> - <para>Alternatively, if the partition is listed in the /etc/fstab file, add the following entry for the partition -to include the POSIX ACLs option: -</para> - <para><command>LABEL=/work /export1 ext3 rw, acl 14 </command></para> - </section> - <section> - <title>Activating POSIX ACLs Support on Client </title> - <para>To mount the glusterfs volumes for POSIX ACLs support, use the following command: -</para> - <para><command># mount –t glusterfs -o acl <replaceable>severname:volume-id</replaceable><replaceable>mount point</replaceable></command> -</para> - <para>For example: -</para> - <para><command># mount -t glusterfs -o acl 198.192.198.234:glustervolume /mnt/gluster</command> -</para> - </section> - </section> - <section> - <title>Setting POSIX ACLs </title> - <para>You can set two types of POSIX ACLs, that is, access ACLs and default ACLs. You can use -access ACLs to grant permission for a specific file or directory. You can use default ACLs only -on a directory but if a file inside that directory does not have an ACLs, it inherits the permissions of -the default ACLs of the directory. -</para> - <para>You can set ACLs for per user, per group, for users not in the user group for the file, and via the -effective right mask. -</para> - <section> - <title>Setting Access ACLs </title> - <para>You can apply access ACLs to grant permission for both files and directories. -</para> - <para><emphasis role="bold">To set or modify Access ACLs</emphasis> -</para> - <para>You can set or modify access ACLs use the following command: -</para> - <para><command># setfacl –m <replaceable>entry type</replaceable> file </command></para> - <para>The ACL entry types are the POSIX ACLs representations of owner, group, and other. -</para> - <para>Permissions must be a combination of the characters <command>r</command> (read), <command>w</command> (write), and <command>x</command> (execute). You must -specify the ACL entry in the following format and can specify multiple entry types separated by -commas. -</para> - <informaltable frame="all"> - <tgroup cols="2"> - <colspec colname="c1"/> - <colspec colname="c2"/> - <thead> - <row> - <entry>ACL Entry</entry> - <entry>Description</entry> - </row> - </thead> - <tbody> - <row> - <entry>u:uid:<permission> </entry> - <entry>Sets the access ACLs for a user. You can specify user name or UID </entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry>g:gid:<permission> </entry> - <entry>Sets the access ACLs for a group. You can specify group name or GID. </entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry>m:<permission> </entry> - <entry>Sets the effective rights mask. The mask is the combination of all access permissions of the owning group and all of the user and group entries. </entry> - </row> - <row> - <entry>o:<permission> </entry> - <entry>Sets the access ACLs for users other than the ones in the group for the file. </entry> - </row> - </tbody> - </tgroup> - </informaltable> - <para>If a file or directory already has an POSIX ACLs, and the setfacl command is used, the additional -permissions are added to the existing POSIX ACLs or the existing rule is modified. -</para> - <para>For example, to give read and write permissions to user antony: -</para> - <para><command># setfacl -m u:antony:rw /mnt/gluster/data/testfile </command></para> - </section> - <section> - <title>Setting Default ACLs </title> - <para>You can apply default ACLs only to directories. They determine the permissions of a file system -objects that inherits from its parent directory when it is created. -</para> - <para>To set default ACLs -</para> - <para>You can set default ACLs for files and directories using the following command: -</para> - <para><command># setfacl –m –-set <replaceable>entry type directory</replaceable></command> -</para> - <para>For example, to set the default ACLs for the /data directory to read for users not in the user group: -</para> - <para><command># setfacl –m --set o::r /mnt/gluster/data </command></para> - <para><note> - <para>An access ACLs set for an individual file can override the default ACLs permissions. -</para> - </note></para> - <para><emphasis role="bold">Effects of a Default ACLs </emphasis></para> - <para>The following are the ways in which the permissions of a directory's default ACLs are passed to the -files and subdirectories in it: -</para> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para>A subdirectory inherits the default ACLs of the parent directory both as its default ACLs and as an -access ACLs. -</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>A file inherits the default ACLs as its access ACLs. -</para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </section> - </section> - <section> - <title>Retrieving POSIX ACLs </title> - <para>You can view the existing POSIX ACLs for a file or directory. -</para> - <para><emphasis role="bold">To view existing POSIX ACLs </emphasis></para> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para>View the existing access ACLs of a file using the following command: -</para> - <para><command># getfacl <replaceable>path/filename</replaceable></command> -</para> - <para>For example, to view the existing POSIX ACLs for sample.jpg -</para> - <programlisting># getfacl /mnt/gluster/data/test/sample.jpg -# owner: antony -# group: antony -user::rw- -group::rw- -other::r--</programlisting> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>View the default ACLs of a directory using the following command: -</para> - <para><command># getfacl <replaceable>directory name</replaceable></command></para> - <para>For example, to view the existing ACLs for /data/doc -</para> - <programlisting># getfacl /mnt/gluster/data/doc -# owner: antony -# group: antony -user::rw- -user:john:r-- -group::r-- -mask::r-- -other::r-- -default:user::rwx -default:user:antony:rwx -default:group::r-x -default:mask::rwx -default:other::r-x</programlisting> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </section> - <section> - <title>Removing POSIX ACLs </title> - <para>To remove all the permissions for a user, groups, or others, use the following command: -</para> - <para><command># setfacl -x <replaceable>ACL entry type file</replaceable></command></para> - <para>For example, to remove all permissions from the user antony: -</para> - <para><command># setfacl -x u:antony /mnt/gluster/data/test-file</command></para> - </section> - <section> - <title>Samba and ACLs </title> - <para>If you are using Samba to access GlusterFS FUSE mount, then POSIX ACLs are enabled by default. -Samba has been compiled with the <command>--with-acl-support</command> option, so no special flags are required -when accessing or mounting a Samba share. -</para> - </section> - <section> - <title>NFS and ACLs </title> - <para>Currently we do not support ACLs configuration through NFS, i.e. setfacl and getfacl commands do -not work. However, ACLs permissions set using Gluster Native Client applies on NFS mounts. -</para> - </section> -</chapter> |