Samba scalability?

[Armand Welsh]

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take a look at http://acl.bestbits.at/ for the POSIX 1003.1e ACL draft
implementation on linux.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shawn Wright" <swright at sls.bc.ca>
To: <samba-ntdom at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 2:10 PM
Subject: RE: Samba scalability?


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> On 21 Dec 2000, at 13:20, Cole, Timothy D. wrote:
>
> > > > Shawn Wright wrote:
> > > > > 1. Lack of ACL support
> > > >
> > > > This is a big issue for us too.  Without full ACLs per file, we
> > > > simply cannot replace certain NT systems, and I haven't seen much
> > > > for Linux ACLs yet.  Of course, this is a Linux shortcoming, not
> > > > a Samba issue.
> > >
> > > ACL support will be in Samba 2.2.  See
> > > http://www.samba.org/samba/development.html for a general roadmap of
> > > releases.
> > >
> > Note that Samba's is still (more or less necessarily) limited by
> > what the underlying OS can do ACL-wise -- there are some NT ACL features
> > that no Unix implements.
>
> I understand the OS must support ACLs in order to have any
> hope of emulating NT ACLs, so I guess this brings up the next
> question: which OSes support ACLs, perferably open source? I
> know Solaris does, and it is now free (or is it?), but I'd prefer to
> stick with open source if possible.
>
>
> ========================
> Shawn Wright
> Computer Systems Manager
> Shawnigan Lake School
> http://www.sls.bc.ca
> swright at sls.bc.ca
>
>