[Samba] Switching between acl_tdb and acl_xattr

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 23:14 +0000, Steve Tice wrote:
> Andrew Bartlett <abartlet <at> samba.org> writes:
> 
> > 
> > Using Samba 4.0.0, the python bindings or even samba-tool ntacl get/set
> > would be quite a good choice here.  We can read directly the NT ACL from
> > the tdb and then set it using the xattr code.
> > 
> > I'm very happy to help out if you have any more questions here, as we
> > certainly do have a good range of tools that should be able to help you
> > out.  
> 
> Andrew, here's a status update on my attempts to accomplish this.
> 
> 1. Attempted to build the "source4" tree provided with the source tarball
> for the samba-3.5.10-125.el6 package. The build did not complete, failing
> when it tried to link bin/wbinfo. The pertinent output from make was
> 
>   Linking bin/wbinfo
>   bin/mergedobj/cli_auth.o: In function `netlogon_creds_copy':
>   (.text+0x17e3): undefined reference to `dom_sid_dup'
>   collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>   make: *** [bin/wbinfo] Error 1
> 
> 2. Successfully built (everything) from a samba-4.0.0beta8 tarball.
> 
> Would you expect the "source4" tree from the samba-3.5.10-125.el6
> tarball to build without error? If it did build cleanly, would it
> even include the tools you mentioned above?

No, it would not.

> Is it reasonable to continue on this path with samba-4.0.0beta8?

Please use the Samba 4.0.1 release tarball.  Why are you trying beta8?

Andrew Bartlett

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