On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Etienne Goyer wrote: > Hey Paul! > > A long time ago, I looked at what it would take to enable NFS4 ACL in > Ubuntu. Not a lot much, basically: > > 1. Package nfs4-acl-tools from > http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/ . Should be fairly > straightforward, but it might be too late as we are past feature freeze. > Maybe if we ask nicely we can get an exception and have it uploaded to > universe. > > 2. Optionally, have the acl package (set/getfacl) patched to support > NFS4 ACL. As you may know already. NFS4 ACL are not quite compatible > with the POSIX one, so this is slightly risky. There is an IETF > draft[1] that propose a mapping, and I believe this is what the UMich > patch to the acl userland tools implements. > > > I would absolutely love to do the work above, except I am out of time > for that :( If someone take care of it, I will try and make time for > testing, promised. > > [1]: http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-nfsv4-acl-mapping-03.txt
I've done that already (without the gui though, just like on fedora): http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=399502 maybe it should be uploaded to lucid now? -- Timo Aaltonen Systems Specialist IT Services, Aalto University School of Science and Technology -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
