pylibacl - A python module for manipulating POSIX.1e ACLs

Welcome to the homepage of pylibacl. This python 2.4+ extension module allows you to manipulate the POSIX.1e Access Control Lists present in some os/filesystem combinations.

Downloads: go here. Latest version is 0.4.0. The source repository is at git://git.k1024.org/pylibacl.git.

Requirements: pylibacl has been written and tested on Linux, kernel v 2.4, with XFS filesystems; ext2/ext3 should work also. Since release 0.4.0, FreeBSD 7 also has quite good support. If any other platform implements the POSIX.1e draft, pylibacl can be used. I heard that Solaris does, but I can't test it yet.

• python 2.4 or newer (2.3 might work but I don't test it anymore)
• operating system:
  • Linux, kernel v2.4, and the libacl library and development packages (all modern distributions should have this, under various names); also the filesystems you use must have ACLs turned on, either as a compile or mount option
  • FreeBSD 7.0 or newer

Documentation: see the epydoc-generated documentation here.

Todo: while Linux support is quite good, other OSes are not; this should be remedied...

License: pylibacl is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Copyright © 2002-2008 by Iustin Pop.

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Last modified: Tue Jul 1 21:09:07 CEST 2008