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POSIX Draft ACL support for Network File System Version 4, Minor Version 2
draft-rmacklem-nfsv4-posix-acls-12

Document Type Replaced Internet-Draft (nfsv4 WG)
Expired & archived
Author Rick Macklem
Last updated 2025-07-27 (Latest revision 2025-06-12)
Replaced by draft-ietf-nfsv4-posix-acls
RFC stream Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
Intended RFC status Proposed Standard
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Dec 2025
Submit POSIX ACL to IESG for publication
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Abstract

This document describes a potential protocol extension involving the addition of four new attributes to be used by servers to provide support for POSIX ACLs. The term POSIX ACLs refers to the ACL component of the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) 1003.1e draft 17 document for which sponsorship was withdrawn in January 1998. Although the draft POSIX standard that describes these ACLs was never ratified, several POSIX-based operating systems, such as Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD include support for them. The NFS Version 4 (NFSv4) ACLs described in Network File System (NFS) Version 4 Minor Version 1 henceforth referred to as NFSv4 ACLs, use a different model and attempts to map between the ACLs of these two models have not been completely successful. In order to adequately support POSIX ACLs, this document proposes four new attributes that may optionally be used by an NFS Version 4, minor version 2 (NFSv4.2) server to support ACLs that conform to the aforementioned POSIX 1003.1e draft 17.

Authors

Rick Macklem

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