[Samba] getting error with setfacl

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 12:37:33AM +0000, Miguel Medalha wrote:
> I just noticed that my question has two aspects to it.
> 
> Leaving aside, for now, the kernel connection, it would be very nice
> to have a command line tool to manipulate the ACLs stored by the
> vfs_acl_xattr module, even if it's only for Samba. There must be a
> way, some utility to read and write the information stored on the
> "security.NTACL" Extended Attribute in a form that humans can
> understand.

There is the smbcacls tool that already ships with Samba.
It works via smbd, not directly on the xattr's, but I think
that's probably the right way to do it.

Jeremy.