Hi John,

Not at this time. It was added to the Windows support so hopefully Linux
isn't far behind!

Thanks,

Trevor


On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Dennis Miller <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Is this still not natively available within Puppet?
>
> On Wednesday, September 28, 2011 8:23:52 AM UTC-5, jcbollinger wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sep 27, 6:23 pm, Corey Osman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > How do I go about using puppet to set an ACL on a file.  I did not see
>> ACL support under the file type.
>> >
>> > Has anybody done this before without using exec?
>> >
>> > Example:
>> >
>> > # Set ACL on directory
>> > setfacl -R -d -m mask:007 /directory
>>
>>
>> The command you present as an example can have no Puppet equivalent
>> other than an Exec, because the state change it directs depends on the
>> current state of the resources it affects.  Or looking at it from the
>> opposite direction, Puppet has no way to determine whether the
>> affected resources are already in the target state.  That is not the
>> way Puppet works, except Exec.
>>
>> If Puppet did support managing file ACLs then it would do so via the
>> File resource type.  If you check that type you will find 'owner',
>> 'group', and 'mode' properties, along with several pertinent to
>> SELinux; these are what you have to work with.  There is also the
>> 'recurse' property for extending the scope of a directory declaration
>> to all its contents, recursively, but it is likely to cause you
>> trouble if the files affected that way are many or collectively large.
>>
>> It is conceivable that File could be extended to allow you to specify
>> an ACL, but manifests would need to specify the full ACL that was
>> desired, for application via 'setfacl --set' (NOT 'setfacl --
>> modify' ).  It would be tricky to get this right because of the
>> overlap between such a property and File's other properties, but it in
>> principle it could be done.
>>
>>
>> John
>>
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