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From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: NFS mounts on R6000
Message-ID: <18176@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 26 Mar 90 06:18:11 GMT
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In article <1898@awdprime.UUCP> mikec@reed.UUCP (Michael Callahan) writes:
>The second problem is not a problem, but an informational message.  The
>AIX file system supports Access Control Lists.  There is a special RPC program
>running on AIX NFS servers to allow NFS clients to view/change these lists.
>The message is there to inform the user (only happens on the first access
>attempt of a newly mounted FS) that the "aclget", "aclput", "acledit", etc
>commands will not work on this NFS filesystem.

More accurately, it is telling you that the [f]statacl() and [f]chacl()
system calls won't work.

aclget, aclput and acledit are user-level commands to view/change/edit
access control lists.  They are not part of the NFS server.

The ACL system calls will dummy-up an ACL for a file on the wire that
is coming from an ACL-free filesystem, but I don't recall what happens
if you try to send an ACL back to the server.  I suspect the extended
entries are dropped on the floor silently, but I don't think you get an
error.
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