Samba on Linux with no ACL's is making things tough

Sander Striker s.striker at striker.nl
Tue Apr 4 17:28:05 GMT 2000


I forwarded this to samba-technical and samba-ntdom because this
issue is something someone is working on. I only can't remember
who... Luke?
This looks very promising.

Michael Marschall wrote:
>I am not sure who suggested it, but I have checked out the Linux Trustee
>Project and the ACL support seems to work very well. It gives you quite
>a bit of granularity and there is no noticeable performance hit.  If you
>are replacing an NT box with Linux/Samba and need to have shares with
>advanced permission sets then something like this is a must. All you
>have to do is patch/compile the kernel, compile the settrustee
>executable and setup your ACL's in a config file. Run the executable to
>set the acl's and you are in business. I will be testing it thoroughly
>over the next few weeks to make sure it will not break on me.
>
>If anybody has any questions on setup you can email me personally and I
>will help where I can.
>
>Here is a link to the site:
>
>http://www.braysystems.com/linux/trustees.html
>
>The developer's first language is not English so please disregard the
>spelling and grammar mistakes. I have offered to help him with
>documentation and editing.
>
>--
>Michael Marschall
>Infrastructure Manager
>VoiceRite, Inc.
>7725 NW 48th St.
>Miami, Florida 33166
>Phone / Fax / Pager : 305 436 1574



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