[Samba] SaMBa 4.16.4 adds users to ACLs as groups

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Tue Jun 13 09:17:36 UTC 2023



On 13/06/2023 10:03, Ralph Boehme via samba wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On 6/13/23 00:57, Tamás Németh via samba wrote:
>>   But why does SaMBa 4.16.4 do what is does, when back then SaMBa 4.6.5
>> didn't do it yet?
> 
> hm, afair this should have worked that way in 4.6.5 as well. If it 
> didn't, that was probably a bug.
> 
> The reason for this feature, is that this allows storing Windows groups 
> as file owner as well Windows to Linux identity mapping type to change 
> from user to group which happens as part of SID history.
> 
> -slow
> 
> 

Ah, that explains it, I sort of understood what it was doing it, but not 
how. As for did it work at 4.6.5, who knows, did anyone try it ? I 
haven't seem this 'feature' documented, so didn't try it until last 
weekend i.e. I did not know you could do this on a Unix domain member.

Rowland




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