[linux-cifs-client] Status of POSIX ACLs

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Thu Nov 18 17:28:28 GMT 2004


On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 10:01:38AM +0100, Markus Meissner wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I am using samba 3.0.8 on the server and the client, both are Debian
> testing. I have recompiled the cifs-module (available on the client, kernel
> 2.6.8-1-686-smp) to support "CONFIG_CIFS_XATTR" and
> "CONFIG_CIFS_POSIX" (disabled by default). On the server I have set global
> "unix extensions = yes" and for the share "ea support = yes". The share is
> on an xfs filesystem supporting ACLs. Accessing the share from a
> windows-xp-client works as expected (incl. ACL-support). Accessing the
> share via mount.cifs works, but I can't see the ACLs via getfacl and I
> can't create/modify files if the user is allowed to via ACL but not via the
> plain unix-permissions.
> 
> I have read some comments regarding EA/ACLs and that they should be finished
> "in a few days", written in Juli 2004. Can anyone tell me the status of the
> implementation? Is there a problem in my setup or a problem in the
> implementation?

"A few days" is more flexible than that :-). I've *just* checked in the
server part of the POSIX acl implementation (yesterday :-). I still have
some more work to do - and then Steve needs to implement the client part.

So "soon" is the right answer :-).

Jeremy.


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