Further thoughts on File System ACL tests ...

Richard Sharpe realrichardsharpe at gmail.com
Wed Mar 28 07:39:52 MDT 2012


On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:33 AM, Nadezhda Ivanova <nivanova at samba.org> wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> I do not think the file is misnamed, as it is in the dsdb directory which
> deals with the directory service database, and they indeed deal with LDAP. I
> suppose we could rename it to ds_acl.py to avoid misunderstanding if
> necessary. However, the principles of SDs and access checks are the same (to
> my knowledge) for both types, and you can borrow ideas from there - the way
> users and groups are created can be re-used, I think. The samba tool for
> setting SDs distinguishes between nt acls and ds acls for this reason. I
> agree that you should make a separate test file, as logically these are
> different functionalities.

Yeah, I guess you are right about the name.

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Regards,
Richard Sharpe
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