ACL module patches

Nadezhda Ivanova nivanova at samba.org
Tue Jul 6 12:47:55 MDT 2010


Just one quick question - obviously I do not understand this control, but
are you sure we should perform the access check only if the control has been
specified?

Regards,
Nadya

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Nadezhda Ivanova <nivanova at samba.org> wrote:

> Hi Matthias,
> I basically made sure to do what you did in password_hash, and I did not
> see this control there, but it looks all right. As for the memory context
> patches - I am not so sure. They will not have any effect but as far as I
> know contexts should be as granular as possible, otherwise you risk a method
> freeing a context that was passed as parameter instead of the local one. And
> the habit of moving line endings around even if they do not exceed the
> character limit... Well, in short, I am not convinced that the second patch
> is necessary, but I am not against applying it. However, since they are your
> patches, I think you should push them :). Just make sure to run both acl.py
> and password.py tests before that.
>
> Regards,
> Nadya
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer <mdw at samba.org>wrote:
>
>> Hi Nadya,
>>
>> the ACL password work does work well beside one exception of which you
>> probably wasn't aware. I put here the link to the patch from which the
>> commit message should explain the reason:
>>
>> http://repo.or.cz/w/Samba/mdw.git/commitdiff/265a2ea034ceb2c29d075933516bbdf6f042c9c9
>>
>> The other patch should fix the outstanding memory contexts:
>> http://repo.or.cz/w/Samba/mdw.git/commitdiff/b3880b5f25b88b524cbb2b5768e37b83109976a1.
>> Would be nice if you could integrates this one too.
>>
>> Greets,
>> Matthias
>>
>
>


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