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29.Dd February 25, 2016
30.Dt POSIX1E 3
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm posix1e
34.Nd introduction to the POSIX.1e security API
35.Sh LIBRARY
36.Lb libc
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.In sys/types.h
39.In sys/acl.h
40.\" .In sys/mac.h
41.Sh DESCRIPTION
42POSIX.1e describes five security extensions to the POSIX.1 API: Access
43Control Lists (ACLs), Auditing, Capabilities, Mandatory Access Control, and
44Information Flow Labels.
45While IEEE POSIX.1e D17 specification has not been standardized, several of
46its interfaces are widely used.
47.Pp
48.Nx
49implements POSIX.1e interface for access control lists, described in
50.Xr acl 3 ,
51and supports ACLs on the
52.Xr ffs 7
53file system; ACLs must be administratively enabled using
54.Xr tunefs 8
55or via
56.Xr mount 8
57options.
58.Pp
59.Nx
60does not implement the POSIX.1e mac, audit, privilege (capability),
61or information flow label APIs.
62.Sh ENVIRONMENT
63POSIX.1e assigns security attributes to all objects, extending the security
64functionality described in POSIX.1.
65These additional attributes store fine-grained discretionary access control
66information; for files, they are stored
67in extended attributes, described in
68.Xr extattr 3 .
69.Pp
70POSIX.2c describes
71a set of userland utilities for manipulating these attributes, including
72.Xr getfacl 1
73and
74.Xr setfacl 1 .
75.Sh SEE ALSO
76.Xr getfacl 1 ,
77.Xr setfacl 1 ,
78.Xr acl 3 ,
79.Xr extattr 3 ,
80.Xr ffs 7 ,
81.Xr tunefs 8 ,
82.Xr acl 9 ,
83.Xr extattr 9
84.Sh STANDARDS
85POSIX.1e is described in IEEE POSIX.1e draft 17.
86.Sh HISTORY
87POSIX.1e support was introduced in
88.Nx 10.0 .
89.Sh AUTHORS
90.An Robert N M Watson
91.An Chris D. Faulhaber
92.An Thomas Moestl
93.An Ilmar S Habibulin
94