Samba on Linux with no ACL's is making things tough

[Jeremy Allison]

Ed Schernau wrote:
> 
> So 2.0.8 WILL have ACLs?  Or only IF you have some sort of POSIX
> ACL support in your OS (Linux 2.2.x) ?

The plan is to integrate the HP donated code into
Samba 2.0.8 so that Samba will provide ACLs *ONLY*
if your underlying OS provides ACL support on the
filesystem.

For each ACL type a mapping will have to be written
from the filesystem ACLs to NT ACLs. Currently this
is planned for HPUX (of course :-), IRIX, Solaris
and (maybe) AIX. A mapping *may* be done for one of
the experimental Linux ACL implementations (the one
at http://acl.bestbits.at/ is probably the one we'll
use) but this code is not currently in any stable or
developement kernel so it will definately be a configure
option on Linux.

If your underlying filesystem doesn't provide any
ACL support then the current mapping (to UNIX
user/group/world) will be used by default.

Jeremy.

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