NFS ACL Support

Access control list (ACL) support was added in the Solaris 2.5 release. ACLs provide a finer-grained mechanism to set file access permissions than is available through standard UNIX file permissions. NFS ACL support provides a method of changing and viewing ACL entries from a Solaris NFS client to a Solaris NFS server. See Using Access Control Lists to Protect Files in System Administration Guide: Security Services for more information about ACLs.

For information about support for ACLs in NFS version 4, see ACLs and nfsmapid in NFS Version 4.