[BBLISA] RE: moving ACLs from Solaris 9 to RHEL5?

[David Allan]

I haven't done it myself, but I pinged some folks who have pretty deep 
RHEL experience, and they say it should be pretty straightforward as long 
as you use ext3 or some other filesystem on the Linux side that supports 
ACLs properly.  As Sean said, tar seems to be an accepted way of 
transferring the files and preserving the ACL data.  I'd say you're in 
reasonably safe waters.

Dave


On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Sean OMeara wrote:

> Extended posix acls are stored in the inode table (on ext3 at least).
> I don't know much about solaris, but I'd assume it works the same way on UFS.
> There should be no external database to be concerned about.
>
> Considering that, assuming tar on both ends understands how to read
> and preserve the acls, then something like this is probably your best
> bet:
>
> solaris9:$ tar cf - /somedir | ssh user at redhat5 tar xf - -C /dest
>
> -s
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Rudie, Tony<Tony.Rudie at fmr.com> wrote:
>> setfacl and getfacl.  This is file-level access control.
>>
>>  - Tony Rudié
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Edward Ned Harvey [mailto:bblisa3 at nedharvey.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 9:45 AM
>> To: Rudie, Tony; L-bblisa
>> Subject: RE: moving ACLs from Solaris 9 to RHEL5?
>>
>>> Does anyone have a quick take on how hard it would be to move a file
>>> system with a large # of file ACLs from a Solaris 9 server to a RedHat
>>> Enterprise Linux 5 server?  It looks like ACLs work the same, but does
>>> anyone know how many annoying glitches there are?
>>
>> When you say ACL's work the same, are you talking about selinux?  I didn't
>> know there was such a thing as ACL's in rhel5 or solaris 9.  Would you care
>> to give me the name of some command I should man, or some page I should
>> google?
>>
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