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

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at samba-tng.org
Wed Feb 28 12:17:39 GMT 2001


On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> 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.

files are owned by SIDs.  SIDs are of any type: the type is totally
irrelevant, to NT.

which causes headaches for people on samba systems who try to make a goup
take ownership of a file.





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