LUDOC-11 security: remove client 'acl' mount option

The 'acl' mount option on the client has been deprecated since
Lustre 1.8, and unsupported since Lustre 2.8.  It should no longer
be mentioned in the manual.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com>
Change-Id: Iceb02088931ed291695c2eac824c673f79647e70
Reviewed-on: https://review.whamcloud.com/47767
Tested-by: jenkins <devops@whamcloud.com>

diff --git a/ManagingSecurity.xml b/ManagingSecurity.xml
index 89bb2b6..6eeab96 100644 (file)
--- a/ManagingSecurity.xml
+++ b/ManagingSecurity.xml
@@ -87,31 +87,23 @@
       <para>Minimal ACLs have three entries. Extended ACLs have more than the
         three entries. Extended ACLs also contain a mask entry and may contain
         any number of named user and named group entries.</para>
-      <para>The MDS needs to be configured to enable ACLs. Use
-        <literal>--mountfsoptions</literal> to enable ACLs when creating your
-        configuration:</para>
-      <screen>$ mkfs.lustre --fsname spfs --mountfsoptions=acl --mdt -mgs /dev/sda</screen>
-      <para>Alternately, you can enable ACLs at run time by using the
-        <literal>--acl</literal> option with <literal>mkfs.lustre</literal>:
+      <para>To check ACLs on the MDS, check that the <literal>acl</literal>
+        connect flag is listed (default since Lustre 1.8):</para>
+      <screen>
+# lctl get_param -n mdc.home-MDT0000-mdc-*.connect_flags | grep acl
+      </screen>
+      <para>ACLs are enabled by default on a Lustre file system, and are
+        controlled on a system-wide basis; either all clients enable ACLs or
+        none do.  Activating ACLs is controlled by MDS mount options
+        <literal>acl</literal>/<literal>noacl</literal> to enable or disable
+        ACLs, respectively.  You do not need to change the client
+        configuration, and the <literal>acl</literal> string will not appear
+        in the client mount options in <literal>/etc/mtab</literal>. 
       </para>
-      <screen>$ mount -t lustre -o acl /dev/sda /mnt/mdt</screen>
-      <para>To check ACLs on the MDS:</para>
-      <screen>$ lctl get_param -n mdc.home-MDT0000-mdc-*.connect_flags | grep acl acl</screen>
-      <para>To mount the client with no ACLs:</para>
-      <screen>$ mount -t lustre -o noacl ibmds2@o2ib:/home /home</screen>
-      <para>ACLs are enabled in a Lustre file system on a system-wide basis;
-        either all clients enable ACLs or none do. Activating ACLs is controlled
-        by MDS mount options <literal>acl</literal> / <literal>noacl</literal>
-        (enable/disable ACLs). Client-side mount options acl/noacl are ignored.
-        You do not need to change the client configuration, and the
-        &apos;acl&apos; string will not appear in the client /etc/mtab. The
-        client acl mount option is no longer needed. If a client is mounted with
-        that option, then this message appears in the MDS syslog:</para>
-      <screen>...MDS requires ACL support but client does not</screen>
-      <para>The message is harmless but indicates a configuration issue, which
-        should be corrected.</para>
       <para>If ACLs are not enabled on the MDS, then any attempts to reference
-        an ACL on a client return an Operation not supported error.</para>
+        an ACL on a client return an <literal>Operation not supported</literal>
+        error.
+      </para>
     </section>
     <section xml:id="managingSecurity.acl.examples" remap="h3">
         <title><indexterm>
@@ -123,22 +115,22 @@
         file system. They are manipulated with the standard tools in the
         standard manner. Below, we create a directory and allow a specific user
         access.</para>
-      <screen>[root@client lustre]# umask 027
-[root@client lustre]# mkdir rain
-[root@client lustre]# ls -ld rain
-drwxr-x---  2 root root 4096 Feb 20 06:50 rain
-[root@client lustre]# getfacl rain
+      <screen>[phil@client lustre]$ umask 027
+[phil@client lustre]$ mkdir rain
+[phil@client lustre]$ ls -ld rain
+drwxr-x---  2 phil dev 4096 Feb 20 06:50 rain
+[phil@client lustre]$ getfacl rain
 # file: rain
-# owner: root
-# group: root
+# owner: phil
+# group: dev
 user::rwx
 group::r-x
 other::---
  
-[root@client lustre]# setfacl -m user:chirag:rwx rain
-[root@client lustre]# ls -ld rain
-drwxrwx---+ 2 root root 4096 Feb 20 06:50 rain
-[root@client lustre]# getfacl --omit-header rain
+[phil@client lustre]$ setfacl -m user:chirag:rwx rain
+[phil@client lustre]$ ls -ld rain
+drwxrwx---+ 2 phil dev 4096 Feb 20 06:50 rain
+[phil@client lustre]$ getfacl --omit-header rain
 user::rwx
 user:chirag:rwx
 group::r-x