Samba4 ACLs and Linux ACLs

[David Disseldorp]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:49:18 +0200
Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 08:24:26PM +1100, David Disseldorp wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:43:37 -0700
> > Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Yes, I'm planning to support richacls but I don't see a finalized
> > > userspace API for me to use yet.
> > 
> > A WIP richacl Samba 3 VFS module is available at
> >   git://oss.sgi.com/v4acls-experimental/samba.git
> >   branch: 36t-richacl
> > 
> > It's currently a little rough around the edges:
> > - it should also handle nt dacls passed in on create, not just
> > get/set acl
> > - CREATOR_OWNER and CREATOR_GROUP aces are not supported
> > - automatic inheritance flags SEC_DESC_DACL_AUTO_INHERITED and
> >   ACL4_AUTO_INHERIT are mapped to each other, however these flags
> > offer differing semantics on Windows and Linux (richacls).
> > 
> > Hopefully look at getting it upstream when the above issues are
> > resolved and it's had some thorough testing.
> > 
> > Anyhow, feel free to poke around. Suggestions, feedback and
> > ridicule welcome.
> 
> Quick question:
> 
>         richacl_for_each_entry(richace, richacl) {
> 
> Where do I find the definition of that macro?

richacl user space libraries are in the master branch at:
  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agruen/richacl.git

Cheers, David