FW: Speed comp. TNG & 2.2.alpha (fwd)

[Andrew Bartlett]

Peter Samuelson wrote:
> 
> [Andrew Bartlett]
> > Well if the case of private groups could be simply exculded (they
> > exist only to make unix admin easier, they dont benifit NT), and
> > system groups excluded, this problem would just 'go away' in the vast
> > majority of installations.
> 
> So when a file belongs to one of these excluded groups, and NT asks for
> the security descriptor, what do you tell it -- "no group"?
> 
> Peter

I don't know the internals of NT as well as I should, but I didn't think
that files under NT needed to be owned by both a group and a user, ie a
file can be owned by just a user.

If this is the case, then samba should just not mention the private
group involved, and simply say the file is owned by the user.  If
sombody is playing games, and files are owned by a different
user/private group combination (ie not matching), then we have a problem
- but that shouldn't occur in the natural course of things, and would
require root permissions to setup anyway.

Just my two bobs worth,
Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
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