[Samba] Linux & NFSv4 ACLs

[Nick Couchman]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeremy Allison" <jra at samba.org>
> To: "Nick E Couchman" <nick.couchman at seakr.com>
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> Sent: Friday, December 4, 2015 1:22:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Linux & NFSv4 ACLs

> On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 07:31:36PM -0700, Nick Couchman wrote:
>> 
>> Try these pages (U Michigan):
>> http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/nfs4-acl-tools/
>> http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/
>> 
>> and here:
>> http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/ACLs
>> 
>> I'm pretty sure that first link is the source that the RHEL/CentOS tools comes
>> from.  Here's output from YUM on CentOS
>> 
>> [root at snapshots ~]# yum whatprovies *bin/nfs4_getfacl
>> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
>> No such command: whatprovies. Please use /usr/bin/yum --help
>> [root at snapshots ~]# yum whatprovides *bin/nfs4_getfacl
>> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
>> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>>  * extras: linux.mirrors.es.net
>> nfs4-acl-tools-0.3.3-13.el7.x86_64 : The nfs4 ACL tools
>> Repo        : base
>> Matched from:
>> Filename    : /usr/bin/nfs4_getfacl
> 
> Thanks for that. The problem is /usr/bin/nfs4_getfacl
> uses an internal library to get marshall/unmarshall the
> ACL data into EA's. I don't think that library is
> installed (and there's no nfs4_acl-dev package).

If I do a "ldd /usr/bin/nfs4_getfacl" here are the results:
[root at pv-nas ~]# ldd `which nfs4_getfacl`
	linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fffa76f6000)
	libattr.so.1 => /lib64/libattr.so.1 (0x00007ffe77f2c000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007ffe77b98000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007ffe7833d000)


So, I don't see any shared library specifically for NFSv4 stuff, just the libattr dependency.  I'm guessing this is what you mean - that there isn't a shared library available with an API you could use in a Samba VFS module to abstract the calls for getting/setting the NFSv4 ACLs - you'd have to actually write the entire library inside the VFS module?

I'll poke around and see if anyone has written a shared library on Linux for NFSv4 ACLs.

-Nick

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