[linux-cifs-client] [RFC PATCH] CIFS posix acl permission checking

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Fri Mar 12 05:23:01 MST 2010


On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 07:18:32AM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > But what's the alternative? Let NFS go and do that piece
> > better forever? :-)
> > 
> > Volker
> 
> Establish sessions as needed, based on a user's own credentials and
> have the kernel use that session/tcon combinaton instead of those
> established at mount time. My goal is to have a prototype of this to
> present at SambaXP, but I may have an initial set of patches in the
> next few weeks.

Ok, then we rule out batch machines where there are no user
credentials. NFS does this fine. I know this is REALLY ugly,
but I have customers who need this. If you have a good
solution for that problem, I would really be happy to hear
this. Something like constrained delegation in Kerberos to
me sounds pretty much like the exact same hack in a
different place.

Volker
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