"Paul B. Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I was curious if there was any utility or library function available to
> evaluate a ZFS ACL. The standard POSIX access(2) call is available to
> evaluate access by the current process, but I would like to evaluate an ACL
> in one process that would be able to determine whether or not some other
> user had a particular permission. Obviously, the running process would need
> to have read privileges on the ACL itself, but I'd rather not reimplement
> the complexity of actually interpreting the ACL. Something like:
>
> access("/path/to/file", R_OK, 400)
>
> Where 400 is the UID of the user whose access should be tested. Clearly
This is not the POSIX access() call which only has 2 parameters.
Depending on the platform where you are, there is either
access("/path/to/file", R_OK | E_OK )
or
eaccess("/path/to/file", R_OK)
euidaccess("/path/to/file", R_OK)
Jörg
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