Welcome!

Trustee2ACL is an open source Java application which converts Netware style Linux trustee permissions to Linux POSIX ACLs. It generates a bash script which is then run on the target machine.

So in short, if you have a Linux fileserver with trustees ACLs then you can easily switch to POSIX ACLs with Trustee2ACL. It saves you a lot of time manually converting trustees and figuring out how to use POSIX ACLs.

History

This project started in 2008 as a work related application written in Bash. Now after being rewritten from scratch in Java I opensourced it and made it available to everyone.

The main motivation for writing the application was the fact that our main fileserver was showing it's age and after I started preparing the new one I ran into problems implementing trustees in the newer kernels. So after trying for a while I decided to switch to POSIX ACLs for standards compliance and for simplicity in maintenance.

Thanks

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