Synopsis

acl bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated acl packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6.

Description

Access Control Lists (ACLs) are used to define finer-grained discretionary
access rights for files and directories. The acl packages contain the
getfacl and setfacl utilities needed for manipulating access control lists.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Prior to this update, the setfacl.1 man page was not intelligible in that it

did not state that removing a non-existent ACL entry is not considered to be an
error. With this update, the setfacl.1 man page has been updated so that its
content is now intelligible and exactly specifies the aforementioned behavior
with regard to removing a non-existent ACL entry. (BZ#674883)

• Prior to this update, the package specification did not reflect a change of

the upstream project web page address. This update corrects the respective
address in the package specification. (BZ#702638)

All users of Access Control Lists should upgrade to these updated packages,
which fix these bugs.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 674883 - ACL: setfacl -x does not fail when asked to remove a non-existent Access Control Entry
• BZ - 702638 - Stale upstream project pointer

CVEs

(none)

References

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