On 05 December, 2008 - Brian Cameron sent me these 1,5K bytes:

> 
> I am the maintainer of GDM, and I am noticing that GDM has a problem when
> running on a ZFS filesystem, as with Indiana.
> 
> When GDM (the GNOME Display Manager) starts the login GUI, it runs the
> following commands on Solaris:
> 
>    /usr/bin/setfacl -m user:gdm:rwx,mask:rwx /dev/audio
>    /usr/bin/setfacl -m user:gdm:rwx,mask:rwx /dev/audioctl
> 
> It does this because the login GUI programs are run as the "gdm" user,
> and in order to support text-to-speech via orca, for users with
> accessibility needs, the "gdm" user needs access to the audio device.
> We were using setfacl because logindevperm(3) normally manages the
> audio device permissions and we only want the "gdm" user to have
> access on-the-fly when the GDM GUI is started.
> 
> However, I notice that when using ZFS on Indiana the above commands fail
> with the following error:
> 
>    File system doesn't support aclent_t style ACL's.
>    See acl(5) for more information on ACL styles support by Solaris.
> 
> What is the appropriate command to use with ZFS?

chmod

> If different commands are needed based on the file system type, then
> how can GDM determine which command to use.

Do both? :)

/Tomas
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Tomas Ögren, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/
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