samba4 - acces to shared directory by groups permissions don't work

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Tue Mar 31 21:02:39 GMT 2009


On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 12:21 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 04:39:31PM +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > 
> > Files will be created as the UID that Samba determines for that new user
> > (stored in it's IDMAP, and unrelated to any existing user).  Users
> > access to those files will be restricted by the intersection of both the
> > posix mode (user group other) any posix ACL and the windows ACL applied
> > to the file.  Only the windows ACL will be visible from the client, and
> > only the windows ACL can be changed.
> > 
> > Yes, this sucks, and we need someone to work on porting in a mapping
> > from Posix ACLs to NT ACLs from Samba3.  (We support a mapping on NFSv4
> > ACLs, but no linux distribution ships with that enabled). 
> 
> That's not the way it works in current code (3.3.x). The NT ACLs
> in Samba3 can be stored in EA's, but they are still mapped down
> on "apply" to POSIX ACLs underneath.

Indeed, and it is this mapping on apply that needs to be brought into
Samba4.  

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.                  http://redhat.com

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