acl_xattr storage format (Re: Moving forward towards releasing Samba 4.0)

Stefan (metze) Metzmacher metze at samba.org
Mon May 21 01:00:03 MDT 2012


Hi Andrew,

> I would also like to make the change to the acl_xattr storage format I
> discussed on the list (move to a hash of the raw posix ACL, not the
> mapped NT ACL), but I will not let this put off the beta. 

That's not possible, as there might be other things than raw posix ACL's
(e.g. simple posix permissions, NFSv4 ACL's ...),
the only thing that matters is the mapping between the NTACL we try to
store and the one that will be returned by the underlying layers.

metze



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