Nathan, thanks for the help that got the problem exactly. Any chance of this
being tossed in the docs somewhere before the new libacl comes up as I could
see others running into it quite easily?
Thanks again,
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Nathan Scott
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 8:28 PM
To: David Wasylciw
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Problems setting ACL with setfacl
hi,
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:50:51AM -0400, David Wasylciw wrote:
> Hello All,
> I've recently installed kernel 2.4.16 with the latest XFS all together
patch
> and of course compiled in ACL support. I'm running Redhat 6.2 and have
> installed all the latest acl programs and libraries but for some reason
when
> I attempt to add a user to the ACL list for a file I get the following
> error:
> setfacl: file: Resulting ACL
> `,user::rw-,user:dwasyl:rw-,mask::---,other::r--': Invalid entry type at
> entry 1
This error message is pretty unhelpful - it will get better in
the future (when we have a different libacl).
> This was generated with the command: setfacl -m u:dwasyl:rw testfile
> I checked through the archives and saw something about perhaps needing to
> have the permissions listed as rw- but that did not seem to help and
> generated the exact same error.
>
> It would be much appreciated if anyone could help point me in the right
> direction and if any more information is needed just let me know.
You probably don't have a mask entry in the ACL. Try something
like this:
$ setfacl -m m::rwx testfile
$ setfacl -m u:dwasyl:rw- testfile
The above recipe works for me. Andreas' man pages are quite
extensive and have a section describing the mask entry - see:
http://acl.bestbits.at/man/acl.5.html
cheers.
--
Nathan
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