Disabling ACLs

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Disabling ACLs

How would one go about disabling access control lists on a volume in 10.6 Snow Leopard Server? I tried the command line with instructions from 10.5 Server, but the terminal reports back that it couldn't find the fsaclctl command. Any ideas?

17" MacBook Pro 5,2, Mac OS X (10.6.1), 4 GB RAM, anti glare

Posted on Oct 10, 2009 7:47 AM

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Answer 1

planb77

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Oct 10, 2009 9:03 AM in response to David Hagan

Hello David,

According to several reports and articles, fsaclctl does not ship with ship Snow Leopard, which means that there is no way to turn ACLs off.

Some individuals have noted or speculated that you may be able to copy it from a Leopard system and use it, but nobody has been entirely certain on whether it would work on a folder/file with ACL that were set by Snow Leopard.

Here is one of those such articles as I had mentioned above.
http://www.bresink.com/osx/300321023/Docs-en/pgs/ACL.html

Hope this helps.

B-rock

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David Hagan Author

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Oct 10, 2009 9:50 AM in response to planb77

Hmmm...this might be bad.

The reason why I want to disable ACLs is because I ran into a problem where ACLs caused issues for Windows users trying to save documents in Microsoft Office using SMB. Does anyone know if Apple corrected this?

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Lurch66

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Oct 12, 2009 8:54 AM in response to David Hagan

This Terminal command will remove all ACLs recursively:

% sudo chmod -RN /directory_name/

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David Hagan Author

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Oct 14, 2009 10:34 AM in response to Lurch66

Thanks, my issue is will that prevent new ones from being created? I want to not only remove them, but disable future ACLs from being created.

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Answer 5

Dec 13, 2009 9:24 AM in response to David Hagan

To my knowledge it is not corrected in 10.6.

I copied the fsaclctl command from 10.5 and created a launchd deamon which disables acl whenever a drive is mounted. Thats the only way to how we get Windows sharing working, expecially for saving Excel and Word Files, because if these files are accessed by to different users, the files will get locked with acls.

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