"Inherit Permissions" request for comments

[David Collier-Brown]

Erick Woods wrote:
> 
> NT's default behavior is UNIX+setgid, except that the gid carries (is
> inherited) down into the directory structure.  Kyle's method exactly mimicks
> NT, but does not allow for David's exception.  I think that David's
> exception is just that, an exception.  If a goal is to mimick an NT server,
> then it should, by default, behave the same. 

	That's ok, so long as you don't try so hard to mimic
	NT that you blow Unix (;-)).  If 

	Seriously, though, I use the "one sentence/one paragraph"
	rule when deciding on features in my open programs: if
	I can't describe an independant option in one sentence
	and a set of interdependant options in one paragraph,
	I know I've blown something. [Thus the comment in a 
	previous message about writing up the force modes for 
	"Using Samba".]

	I agree our user community is Windows, and want to 
	avoid confusing them, but I want to retain the ability
	to adapt perticular shares to particular purposes in
	a unix-is-programmable way.

	[Security in a later message]

--dave
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