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ACL_SET_FILE(3) | Library Functions Manual | ACL_SET_FILE(3) |
NAME¶
acl_set_file
— set
an ACL by filename
LIBRARY¶
Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, -lacl).
SYNOPSIS¶
#include
<sys/types.h>
#include <sys/acl.h>
int
acl_set_file
(const
char *path_p, acl_type_t
type, acl_t
acl);
DESCRIPTION¶
The
acl_set_file
()
function associates an access ACL with a file or directory, or associates a
default ACL with a directory. The pathname for the file or directory is
pointed to by the argument path_p.
The effective user ID of the process must match the owner of the file or directory or the process must have the CAP_FOWNER capability for the request to succeed.
The value of the argument type is used to indicate whether the access ACL or the default ACL associated with path_p is being set. If the type parameter is ACL_TYPE_ACCESS, the access ACL of path_p shall be set. If the type parameter is ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT, the default ACL of path_p shall be set. If the argument type specifies a type of ACL that cannot be associated with path_p, then the function fails.
The acl parameter must
reference a valid ACL according to the rules described on the
acl_valid(3) manual page if the type
parameter is ACL_TYPE_ACCESS, and must either reference a valid ACL or an
ACL with zero ACL entries if the type parameter is
ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT. If the acl parameter references an
empty ACL, then the
acl_set_file
()
function removes any default ACL associated with the directory referred to
by the path_p parameter.
RETURN VALUE¶
The acl_set_file
() function returns the
value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and
the global variable errno is set to indicate the
error.
ERRORS¶
If any of the following conditions occur, the
acl_set_file
() function returns
-1
and sets errno to the
corresponding value:
- [
EACCES
] - Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix or the
object exists and the process does not have appropriate access rights.
Argument type specifies a type of ACL that cannot be associated with path_p.
- [
EINVAL
] - The argument acl does not point to a valid ACL.
The ACL has more entries than the file referred to by path_p can obtain.
The type parameter is not ACL_TYPE_ACCESS or ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT.
The type parameter is ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT, but the file referred to by path_p is not a directory.
- [
ENAMETOOLONG
] - The length of the argument path_p is too long.
- [
ENOENT
] - The named object does not exist or the argument path_p points to an empty string.
- [
ENOSPC
] - The directory or file system that would contain the new ACL cannot be extended or the file system is out of file allocation resources.
- [
ENOTDIR
] - A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
- [
ENOTSUP
] - The file identified by path_p cannot be associated with the ACL because the file system on which the file is located does not support this.
- [
EPERM
] - The process does not have appropriate privilege to perform the operation to set the ACL.
- [
EROFS
] - This function requires modification of a file system which is currently read-only.
STANDARDS¶
IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17 (“POSIX.1e”, abandoned)
The behavior of acl_set_file
() when the
acl parameter refers to an empty ACL and the
type parameter is ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT is an extension in
the Linux implementation, in order that all values returned by
acl_get_file
() can be passed to
acl_set_file
(). The POSIX.1e function for removing a
default ACL is acl_delete_def_file
().
SEE ALSO¶
acl_delete_def_file(3), acl_get_file(3), acl_set_fd(3), acl_valid(3), acl(5)
AUTHOR¶
Derived from the FreeBSD manual pages written by Robert N M Watson ⟨rwatson@FreeBSD.org⟩, and adapted for Linux by Andreas Gruenbacher ⟨a.gruenbacher@bestbits.at⟩.
March 23, 2002 | Linux ACL |