nfs4acl?

[Timo Aaltonen]

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