[Samba] samba 3.3.x vfs_acl_xattr support

[Ying Hu]

Thanks for the reply. I just tried to use this feature, but after I created
a file, getfattr returns empty. Here is my compilation flags:
            ./configure --prefix=/usr \
                                    --localstatedir=/var/lib/samba \
                                    --sysconfdir=/etc/samba \
                                    --with-configdir=/etc/samba \
                                    --with-libdir=/usr/lib/samba \
                                    --with-lockdir=/var/lib/samba \
                                    --with-logfilebase=/var/log/samba \
                                    --with-mandir=/usr/man \
                                    --with-rootsbindir=/sbin \
                                    --with-piddir=/var/run/samba \
                                    --with-privatedir=/etc/samba \
                                    --with-swatdir=/var/data/samba/swat \
                                    --enable-debug \
                                    --with-automount \
                                    --with-acl-support \
                                    --disable-cups \
                                    --with-msdfs \
                                    --with-pam \
                                    --with-pam_smbpass \
                                    --with-quotas \
                                    --with-smbmount \
                                    --with-syslog \
                                    --with-tdbsam \
                                    --with-utmp \
                                    --with-vfs \
                                    --with-winbind \
                                    --with-shared-modules=idmap_rid,idmap_ad
\
                                    --with-ldap \
                                    --with-ads; \
Did I miss anything?
We are very interested in this feature for sure. Currently is this feature
used only for storing NTACL, or it is also used for authentication?

Thanks a lot!
Ying


On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Volker Lendecke
<Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de>wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 08:03:46AM -0500, Ying Hu wrote:
> > >From samba 3.3.0 release notes, it seems like samba 3.3.x is at least
> > experimenting using xattr to store NT ACL, which can eventually provide
> > better NT ACL support. I tried similar features with samba 4.0.0 alpha6,
> > which works very nice. Is there any plan to provide same level of NT ACL
> > support with samba 3.3.x? If there is such plan, any targeted date for
> that?
>
> The experimental feature in 3.3 is designed to do exactly
> what Samba 4 does in this area right now. If you find any
> deficiencies, please file bugs against it. The fact that
> this is a little tested and security-sensitive feature is
> the reason that we marked this as experimental. You can help
> by testing it :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Volker
>