Query-info passthrough for linux smb

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Sun Oct 28 21:03:07 UTC 2018


On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 05:55:34AM +1000, ronnie sahlberg via samba-technical wrote:
> List, all
> 
> PSA, and fishing for people to write some python code...
> 
> 
> In the kernel client land we now have an ioctl to provide query info passthrough
> between the application and the smb2/3 server.
> This allows userland applications to view all the SMB2/3 metadata that
> are available via
> SMB2/QUERY_INFO.
> 
> We even have some simple example code to show how the API looks like
> when querying for example the security descriptor or quota.
> 
> It would be really awesome to have linux applications with a gui to
> view or manage these things instead of having to revert to using other
> OSes everytime we want to view these data.
> 
> Anyone up for writing some nice, maybe python, tools to view and
> operate on security descriptors?
> I think having something similar to what you have in
> Properties/Security/... in Explorer would be awesome.

Really cool work Ronnie - thanks ! That will be
amazingly useful in future.

Jeremy.



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