native posix permissions

[Cole, Timothy D.]

Are the extensions generalized enough to cope with e.g. POSIX ACLs?  If so,
it'd seem a significantly better deal than trying to approximate them with
NT ACLs (or at least a good alternative scheme for users to choose from).

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jeremy Allison [SMTP:jeremy at valinux.com]
> Sent:	Friday, June 23, 2000 16:19
> To:	Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-TECHNICAL
> Subject:	Re: native posix permissions
> 
> Claus Färber wrote:
> > 
> > Hallo.
> > 
> > I wonder if it's a good idea to add calls to the samba servers that
> > would export _unix_ file permission read and write functions to clients.
> > 
> > These could for example be used by Win32 shell extensions to handle the
> > native unix permissions directly, thus avoiding any strange effects (for
> > the average user) introduced by the permission bit <-> acl mapping.
> > 
> > I wonder what would be the best and easiest strategy to implement that:
> > ioctls or rpcs?
> 
> HP have already done this for the CIFS/9000 product.
> It was done via new trans2 calls in the base SMB protocol
> as specified by the UNIX-Extentions to CIFS document.
> 
> We should be integrating that code (thanks HP) shortly
> (once we're out of printing hell :-) :-).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 	Jeremy Allison,
> 	Samba Team.
> 
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