[Samba] Skip ACL checks

Christoph Kleineweber christoph at quobyte.com
Mon Mar 20 14:55:39 UTC 2017


On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 3:29 PM, Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 03:23:47PM +0100, Christoph Kleineweber wrote:
> > The nfs4-acl-tools make also use of xattrs to access ACLs. The ACL itself
> > is XDR encoded, so access could be done directly by a VFS module and does
> > not require the executable.
>
> This sounds as if it would be possible to write a VFS module to access
> the ACLs.


Indeed. I may check if there are significant changes between the
nfs4-acl-tools compliant xattr format and the existing nfs4acl_xattr
module. Is there any reason to keep this module?

Christoph


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