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Add ACL Support to Nautilus

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9 February 2007 - 1:25pm
Submitted by: mgpeter

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Problem:

When using the GNOME Interface on SLES10 or SLED10 it is very hard to adjust ACLs (Access Control Lists) on files and directories because Nautilus does not have ACL support (yet).

Solution:

Fortunately there is a Nautilus Extension that will add ACL support to Nautilus. It is called Eiciel and can be found at:

http://rofi.pinchito.com/eiciel/

This extension will add additional tabs on the file and directory properties sheet called "Access Control List" and "Extended User Attributes" where you can graphically adjust the ACLs. Eiciel also installs a standalone application that allows the same functionality.

Environment:

Eiciel was written in C++, so you will need some additional software packages for SLES10 from the SLE-SDK, these are gtkmm24, glibmm24 and libsigc++2 (these packages are available on the SLED10 install media if installing on SLED10).

I have built an RPM (i586 only) for eiciel to allow for easy installation, you can download it from:

http://sled10repo.pcc/-services.com/software/AdminUtils/eiciel-0.9.4-SLED.v1.i586.rpm

the Source RPM (if you want to build it for x86-64) can be found at:

http://sled10repo.pcc/-services.com/source_rpms/eiciel-0.9.4-SLED.v1.src.rpm


Disclaimer: As with everything else at Cool Solutions, this content is definitely not supported by Novell (so don't even think of calling Support if you try something and it blows up).

It was contributed by a community member and is published "as is." It seems to have worked for at least one person, and might work for you. But please be sure to test, test, test before you do anything drastic with it.



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