Current approaches to ACL handling

[Christopher R. Hertel]

On 10/01/2012 02:12 PM, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 03:02:33PM -0400, simo wrote:
>> On Mon, 2012-10-01 at 11:52 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 02:42:51PM -0400, simo wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 2012-10-01 at 13:28 -0500, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
>>>>> What are the current best practices for ACL handling?
>>>>>
>>>>> To my knowledge, it's using EAs to store the ACLs.  Is there any in-depth
>>>>> documentation on this implementation?  Are there any other mechanisms in use?
>>>>
>>>> We store the Windows ACL in an EA and a matching posix ACL translation
>>>> on the file, plus a sha hash of the ACL so we can be sure they are in
>>>> sync.
>>>>
>>>> I am not aware of any other doc beyond the code.
>>>
>>> Well there are some SambaXP talks on it I did a while ago :-).
>>
>> Indeed here is the archive page from 2009:
>> http://sambaxp.org/index.php?id=41
>>
>> Search for: Jeremy Allison (Samba Team, Google):
>> Native Windows ACLs in Samba 3
>>
>> There are both slides and ogg file with audio
>
> Thanks Simo. Sorry for being so lazy :-(.

Actually... Thanks, Simo.  I should have done the lookup and posted the 
results myself.  :)

Chris -)-----

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