What value does winbindd give us when we are using acl_xattr?

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Sat Jul 4 20:24:52 CEST 2015


On Sat, 2015-07-04 at 10:55 -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> One of the big things that winbindd does, UID/GID mapping, seems to be
> simply not relevant when we are using acl_xattr.

How is that the case?  We still need a UID/GID when writing out the
underlying posix ACL, and to set up the posix token to give the kernel.

Andrew Bartlett

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