BasicTests.test_security_descriptor_add_neg

Nadezhda Ivanova nadezhda.ivanova at postpath.com
Sat Jan 16 17:34:33 MST 2010


Yes, I think you are right, this should be the cause. In this case the test may be incorrect, we should not let access checks prevent us from checking the SD is there...

----- Original Message -----
> From: tridge at samba.org <tridge at samba.org>
> To: Nadezhda Ivanova <nadezhda.ivanova at postpath.com>
> Cc: jelmer at samba.org <jelmer at samba.org>, samba-technical at samba.org <samba-technical at samba.org>
> Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 2:19:21 AM GMT+0200 Europe;Athens
> Subject: Re: BasicTests.test_security_descriptor_add_neg

> > Hi Nadya,
> 
> What seems to happen on windows is that the nTSecurityDescriptor that
> we provided in the add then denies ourselves the ability to read the
> nTSecurityDescriptor attribute from the object. So the add works, but
> then when we do the search, we don't get back the
> nTSecurityDescriptor.
> 
> I don't think we do full ACL checking on search yet, right? Maybe this
> explains the difference in behaviour?
> 
> Cheers, Tridge


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