Bug 770568

Summary:	"setfacl -m" doesn't work in RHEL6.2
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	hlv
Component:	acl	Assignee:	Kamil Dudka <kdudka>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.2	CC:	ccliu, sct
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Hardware:	x86_64
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Description hlv 2011-12-27 14:14:58 UTC

Description of problem:
"setfacl -m" command doesn't work in RHEL6.2

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL6 update2

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. touch file ; mkdir dir
2. setfacl -m u:username:rwx file ; setfacl -m u:username:rwx dir
3. setfacl -m g:groupname:rwx file ; setfacl -m g:groupname:rwx dir
  
Actual results:

setfacl: Option -m: Invalid argument near character 3

Expected results:
set the acl to the file or the directory sucessfully

Additional info:

Comment 2 Kamil Dudka 2011-12-27 14:46:50 UTC

This works fine.  I am getting the expected results.

$ rpm -q acl libacl
acl-2.2.49-6.el6.x86_64
libacl-2.2.49-6.el6.x86_64

$ touch file ; mkdir dir
$ setfacl -m u:kdudka:rwx file ; setfacl -m u:kdudka:rwx dir
$ setfacl -m g:kdudka:rwx file ; setfacl -m g:kdudka:rwx dir
$ getfacl file dir
# file: file
# owner: kdudka
# group: kdudka
user::rw-
user:kdudka:rwx
group::rw-
group:kdudka:rwx
mask::rwx
other::r--

# file: dir
# owner: kdudka
# group: kdudka
user::rwx
user:kdudka:rwx
group::rwx
group:kdudka:rwx
mask::rwx
other::r-x

Comment 3 Kamil Dudka 2012-01-11 12:29:35 UTC

stefacl -m works as documented.  If not, please provide more details.