Support for Solaris ACL?

[Steen Jensen]

On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

lkcl> hi steen,
lkcl> 
lkcl> are you a c programmer?  do you know, or anyone else know, of some
lkcl> example source code that uses solaris acls? 

No, I haven't seen any code, that uses acls. I just recently started using
acls on solaris, so far I've been quite happy with standard unix
permissions.

I'm not a good enough programmer, to implement acl support myself,
sorry...

/Steen.

lkcl> 
lkcl> luke
lkcl> 
lkcl> On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Steen Jensen wrote:
lkcl> 
lkcl> > Hello,
lkcl> > 
lkcl> > I need to setup permissions for a bunch of files, that's a bit more
lkcl> > complex, then possible with traditional UNIX permissions. I can set the
lkcl> > permissions exactly right, by using the ACL's in Solaris 2.5.
lkcl> > 
lkcl> > The problem is, that I need to share these files with Samba, to Win95
lkcl> > clients. When doing this people don't get the rights the need, because
lkcl> > Samba don't support/respect the additionally rights given in the ACLs.
lkcl> > 
lkcl> > So my question is, will Samba get support for Solaris ACL system?
lkcl> > 
lkcl> > Maybe it's not possible at all?
lkcl> > 
lkcl> > I don't need any mapping between NT ACLs and Solaris ACLs, but it would be
lkcl> > pretty cool though...
lkcl> > 
lkcl> > 
lkcl> > Best,
lkcl> > 
lkcl> > Steen Jensen                                 System & net administrator
lkcl> > -- 
lkcl> > Aalborg University			     e-mail: sj at kom.auc.dk
lkcl> > Institute of Electronic Systems
lkcl> > Department of Communication Technology
lkcl> > 
lkcl> > 
lkcl> 
lkcl> <a href="mailto:lkcl at samba.anu.edu.au" > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton  </a>
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lkcl> 
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