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Bug ID 6576659
Synopsis zfs allow should list delegatable perms
State 10-Fix Delivered (Fix available in build)
Category:Subcategory utility:zfs
Keywords
Responsible Engineer Mark Shellenbaum
Reported Against
Duplicate Of
Introduced In solaris_nevada
Commit to Fix snv_84
Fixed In snv_84
Release Fixed solaris_nevada(snv_84) , solaris_10u6(s10u6_01) (Bug ID:2160872)
Related Bugs
Submit Date 3-July-2007
Last Update Date 27-February-2008
Description
If I want to discover what permissions I can delegate using "zfs allow", I have to go read some documentation.
Right now, that's pretty much only marks' blog.  Eventually, that'll be the man page.  But man pages can have
typos, and they can be out of date, and they can sometimes be a pain in the butt.

"zfs set" without args tells you all the properties that can be set.  It'd be really nice to see the same kind
of thing for "zfs allow".  Currently, it says, "For the property list, run: zfs set|get".  But the usage message
says nothing about "properties", and there's no obvious connection between settable properties and delegatable
permissions.  Sure, many, if not most of the permissions share the names of the properties or the zfs subcommands,
but none of that's obvious.  And that may not always hold, either.
Work Around
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Comments
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