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Programmatically report if ACL support is enable in Linux

I am building a server install script and want to to check if ACL support has been enabled before setting directory default permissions.

The getfacl manpage states:

If getfacl is used on a file system that does not support ACLs, getfacl displays the access permissions defined by the traditional file mode permission bits.

I would rather not hack together a umask comparison, etc., but haven't discovered a better option anywhere.

Thoughts?

EDIT: I should include this is being attempted on CentOS 6.4 systems

Solution

  • Try this:

    DIRECTORY="/home"
MOUNTPOINT=`df "$DIRECTORY" | tail -1 | awk '{ print $1 }'`
MOUNTSET=`/sbin/tune2fs -l $MOUNTPOINT | grep "Default mount options" | grep acl | wc -l`
if [ "$MOUNTSET" = "0" ]; then
     echo "Mount point $MOUNTPOINT does not have enabled ACL."
else
     echo "Juppi. Mount point $MOUNTPOINT have enabled ACL."
fi

    Works fine on Debian 7.