Re: RichACLs man-pages review

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>]

Hello Andreas,

Here, some comments on the setrichacl(1) page.

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> .TH SETRICHACL 7 2015-09-01 "Linux" "Rich Access Control Lists"
> 
> .SH NAME
> setrichacl \- Set Rich Access Control Lists
> 
> .SH SYNOPSIS
> .B setrichacl
> .RI [ OPTION "]... [" FILE ]...

In man-pages, at least, the convention is to use lower case for these
pieces (and thus through the remainder of the page), so:

> .RI [ option "]... [" file ]...

> 
> .SH DESCRIPTION
> The setrichacl utility sets or modifies Rich Access Control Lists (richacls) of

.BR setrichacl

> files and directories.
> 
> The
> .B \-m
> and
> .B \-s
> options expect an ACL or parts of an ACL on the command line. The
> .B \-M
> and
> .B \-S
> options read an ACL or parts of an ACL from a file. In either case, the entry
> format is described in section
> .I TEXT FORM
> of the richacl(7) manual page. The single-letter or long forms of flags and

Use
.BR richachl (7)
for page cross references.

> permissions can be mixed arbitrarily. Multiple entries are separated by
> whitespace, newlines or commas.
> 
> Note that the order of ACL entries matters, and that changing the order may
> grant different permissions.
> 
> The use of
> .B deny
> entries is discouraged. If
> .B deny
> entries are used, they should be placed ahead of
> .B allow
> entries for improved interoperability with Windows where possible.
> 
> When the file masks are not specified, they are computed automatically.
> 
> When the ACL to be set is simple enough that the traditional file permission
> bits can express the same permissions, setrichacl instead only sets the file

.BR setrichacl

> permission bits. Minor differences that do not have an influence on the
> permissions granted by the acl are not preserved.  When setrichacl's

s/acl/ACL/

.BR setrichacl 's

> counterpart utility, getrichacl, is used on a file or directory that does not

.BR getrichacl ,

> have a richacl, it displays the access permissions defined by the file
> permission bits as a richacl.
> 
> .SS Permissions
> 
> Setting ACLs or changing the file permission bits is allowed to the file owner,
> to processes which have the write_acl permission, and to processes which have

.B write_acl

> the CAP_FOWNER capability.

.B CAP_FOWNER

> 
> .SH OPTIONS
> .TP
> \-\-\fBmodify\fR \fIacl\fR, \fB\-m\fR \fIacl\fR
> Modify the ACL of \fIFILE\fR by replacing existing entries with the entries in
> \fIacl\fR, and adding all new entries. When the permissions of an entry are
> empty, remove the entry.
> .TP
> \fB\-\-modify\-file\fR \fIacl_file\fR, \fB\-M\fR \fIacl_file\fR
> Identical to \-\-modify, but read the ACL from \fIacl_file\fR instead. If the

.B \-\-modify

> file is \(lq\-\(rq, read from standard input.
> .TP
> \fB\-\-set\fR \fIacl\fR, \fB\-s\fR \fIacl\fR
> Set the ACL of \fIFILE\fR to \fIacl\fR. Any previous ACL is replaced.
> ACL entries are separated by whitespace, newlines, or commas.
> .TP
> \fB\-\-set\-file\fR \fIacl_file\fR, \fB\-S\fR \fIacl_file\fR
> Identical to \-\-set, but read the ACL from \fIacl_file\fR instead. If the

.BR \-\-set ,

> file is \(lq\-\(rq, read from standard input.
> .TP
> \fB\-\-remove\fR, \fB\-b\fR
> Remove all extended permissions and revert to the file permission bits only.
> .TP
> \fB\-\-version\fR, \fB\-v\fR
> Display the version of setrichacl and exit.

.BR setrichacl

> .TP
> \fB\-\-help\fR, \fB\-h\fR
> Display command-line usage help text.
> 
> .\" .SH EXAMPLES

Yes please!

> .SH AUTHOR
> Written by Andreas Grünbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>.
> 
> Please send your bug reports, suggested features and comments to the above address.
> 
> .SH CONFORMING TO
> Rich Access Control Lists are Linux-specific.
> 
> .SH SEE ALSO
> .BR getrichacl (1),
> .BR richacl (7)

Cheers,

Michael



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