Preserving NTFS permissions.

[Christopher R. Hertel]

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?

Chris -)-----

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