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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install richacl using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install richacl
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install richacl using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install richacl
How To Uninstall richacl on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the richacl package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove richacl
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install richacl on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
