Samba4 Posix NTVFS questions

Gémes Géza geza at kzsdabas.sulinet.hu
Sun Nov 7 22:42:47 GMT 2004


Jeremy Allison írta:

>On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 02:04:50PM +0100, Gémes Géza wrote:
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>>IMHO in long term the only viable solution would be the reformulation of 
>>the Posix ACL standard (1003.1e/1003.2c Draft Standard 17), in order to 
>>extend it to "natively" support the union of CIFS and NFSv4 ACLs (The 
>>current Linux NFSv4 server implementation lacks many of the NFSv4 ACLs 
>>advantages 
>>(http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/rfc/draft-ietf-nfsv4-acl-mapping-02.txt)).
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>Actually no, I think this would be a disaster. I think
>what the NFS people did was a huge mistake, as may yet
>become apparant.
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>Putting NT style ACLs into the Posix spec is a very dangerous
>thing to do (think legal issues, not technical ones).
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>Jeremy.
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Then how in your view should Samba4 act when contacted by a Posix and by 
a Windows client?
Give one the system EA based Posix ACLs, and the other the user EA based 
NT ACLs? Or will be both presented with the same NT ACLs, remaining the 
Posix clients job to translate them to Posix ones?
Another question: How would you treat the Take ownership NT right?

Thanks

Geza


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