How To Install richacl on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install richacl
on CentOS 7.
What is richacl
The getrichacl and setrichacl utilities allow to manage Rich Access Control Lists (richacls) from the command line. Richacls are an implementation of NFSv4 ACLs which has been extended by file masks to better fit the standard POSIX file permission model. They provide a consistent file permission model locally as well as over various remote file system protocols like NFSv4 and CIFS/Samba.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install richacl
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install richacl.
Install richacl on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install richacl
using yum
by running the following command:
Install richacl on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install richacl
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall richacl on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the richacl
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install richacl
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.