[Samba] ACL propegation problem - any known issues?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 12:04:16PM -0400, David Brodbeck wrote:
> We use POSIX ACLs (under ext2fs) with a fairly complicated set of
> permissions.  Each folder has default permissions that should cause anything
> created under it to also have the correct permissions.
> 
> What I'm seeing is occasionally a folder will be created and its default
> permissions are not set.  When files are created under this folder, they of
> course have the wrong permissions because there are no defaults to inherit.
> It doesn't happen every time, and I've had trouble trying to reproduce it
> myself, but I see the results pretty frequently.  I'm not entirely sure if
> it happens when the folder is created, or if the permissions are dropped
> later when it's modified.
> 
> This has been cropping up from time to time ever since we switched from
> Samba 2.2.8a to Samba 3.0.2-debian, and I'm wondering if it's a known bug.
> I'm getting tired of having to patch up permissions by hand.  I've set
> "inherit acls=yes", but it doesn't seem to have completely solved the
> problem.

Can you reproduce this ? I'd like to see a reproducible case for it
in order to be able to work on it.

Jeremy.