Preserving NTFS permissions.
Christopher R. Hertel
crh at ubiqx.mn.org
Wed Jun 20 17:16:58 GMT 2007
Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 04:51:59PM +0000, simo wrote:
>> Not sure we can really do this with the current samba3 VFS
>> infrastructure.
>
> Yes we can - there are get/set calls in the VFS.
That's what I was looking at. There are two pairs: get/set and fget/fset.
I need to figure out what each of these do.
>> In any case storing the ACL in an EA is not the problem,
>> the problem is then enforcing them.
>
> Yup :-).
Makes sense to me. :)
Won't we also need to manage the relationship between the NTFS ACEs and the
old FAT-style permission bits?
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