Preserving NTFS permissions.

[Christopher R. Hertel]

Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 11:44:21AM -0500, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
>> It appears as though this is something that could be done using the VFS
>> layer.  In particular, I should be able to store the full NTFS ACE in an EA.
>>  Something I read suggests that Samba 4 is already doing this.
> 
> Storing it is easy - evaluating it is more tricky. I'd be happy to
> add a VFS module that does this (and change the VFS interface if
> it needs changing to make this work), but no one has yet committed
> the resources to add this.

I may be in a position to do or help do the work.  I won't promise yet (you
know me too well anyway) but it does sound like an interesting problem to solve.

Would we need only one ACE per file/directory or is it possible to have
multiple ACEs assigned?  I imagine the latter.

Thanks.

Chris -)-----

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