[jcifs] Acl Support

[Michael B. Allen]

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 14:29:03 -0600
"Christopher R. Hertel" <crh at ubiqx.mn.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:06:15PM -0500, Michael B. Allen wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:59:42 +0100
> > Stefan Voelkel <Stefan.Voelkel at millenux.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > is there a way to modify ACL's via jcifs? If not are there plans to 
> > > implement it? If not can you give my a hint what I have to read to 
> > > implement this?
> 
> Start with the SNIA CIFS Technical Reference.  That should provide a good
> foundation for understanding how ACLs work.  As Mike says, there are some

That document has stuff about ACLs? What section?

> SMBs that will fiddle Extended Attributes, but I doubt that those will be
> enough for full support.  The next thing to read is Luke K.C. Leighton's
> book DCE/RPC over SMB. See:  http://ubiqx.org/cifs/References.html for
> links.
> 
> Note that rumor has it that The Open Group (http://www.opengroup.org/)  
> will be releasing a lot of its DCE/RPC code (in C, I believe) under an
> Open Source license.  This code is not the same as MS-RPC, but it is close 

Interesting. Where did you hear this and do you have any details?

> enough to be very useful.  Converting it all to Java would be a massive 
> task, but the hope is that it will be readable enough that we can get some 
> clues.

Well we wouldn't "convert" the code anyway. It's probably not a
"massive" amount of code actually. But the encrytped PDUs and layers
ontop of existing layers will require a significant bit of thinking if
we are going to maintain the quaility and simplicity of the code we have
now. It's probably a 3 month job to get the first rpcs to even work. But
three months is a long time these days.

Mike

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