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26.Dd September 18, 2009
27.Dt VACCESS_ACL_NFS4 9
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm vaccess_acl_nfs4
31.Nd generate a NFSv4 ACL access control decision using vnode parameters
32.Sh SYNOPSIS
33.In sys/param.h
34.In sys/vnode.h
35.In sys/acl.h
36.Ft int
37.Fo vaccess_acl_nfs4
38.Fa "enum vtype type"
39.Fa "uid_t file_uid"
40.Fa "gid_t file_gid"
41.Fa "struct acl *acl"
42.Fa "accmode_t accmode"
43.Fa "struct ucred *cred"
44.Fa "int *privused"
45.Fc
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47This call implements the logic for the
48.Ux
49discretionary file security model
50with NFSv4 ACL extensions.
51It accepts the vnodes type
52.Fa type ,
53owning UID
54.Fa file_uid ,
55owning GID
56.Fa file_gid ,
57access ACL for the file
58.Fa acl ,
59desired access mode
60.Fa accmode ,
61requesting credential
62.Fa cred ,
63and an optional call-by-reference
64.Vt int
65pointer returning whether or not
66privilege was required for successful evaluation of the call; the
67.Fa privused
68pointer may be set to
69.Dv NULL
70by the caller in order not to be informed of
71privilege information, or it may point to an integer that will be set to
721 if privilege is used, and 0 otherwise.
73.Pp
74This call is intended to support implementations of
75.Xr VOP_ACCESS 9 ,
76which will use their own access methods to retrieve the vnode properties,
77and then invoke
78.Fn vaccess_acl_nfs4
79in order to perform the actual check.
80Implementations of
81.Xr VOP_ACCESS 9
82may choose to implement additional security mechanisms whose results will
83be composed with the return value.
84.Pp
85The algorithm used by
86.Fn vaccess_acl_nfs4
87is based on the NFSv4 ACL evaluation algorithm, as described in
88NFSv4 Minor Version 1, draft-ietf-nfsv4-minorversion1-21.txt.
89The algorithm selects a
90.Em matching
91entry from the access ACL, which may
92then be composed with an available ACL mask entry, providing
93.Ux
94security compatibility.
95.Pp
96Once appropriate protections are selected for the current credential,
97the requested access mode, in combination with the vnode type, will be
98compared with the discretionary rights available for the credential.
99If the rights granted by discretionary protections are insufficient,
100then super-user privilege, if available for the credential, will also be
101considered.
102.Sh RETURN VALUES
103.Fn vaccess_acl_nfs4
104will return 0 on success, or a non-zero error value on failure.
105.Sh ERRORS
106.Bl -tag -width Er
107.It Bq Er EACCES
108Permission denied.
109An attempt was made to access a file in a way forbidden by its file access
110permissions.
111.It Bq Er EPERM
112Operation not permitted.
113An attempt was made to perform an operation limited to processes with
114appropriate privileges or to the owner of a file or other resource.
115.El
116.Sh SEE ALSO
117.Xr vaccess 9 ,
118.Xr vnode 9 ,
119.Xr VOP_ACCESS 9
120.Sh AUTHORS
121Current implementation of
122.Fn vaccess_acl_nfs4
123was written by
124.An Edward Tomasz Napierala Aq Mt trasz@FreeBSD.org .
125.Sh BUGS
126This manual page should include a full description of the NFSv4 ACL
127evaluation algorithm, or cross reference another page that does.
128