[Samba] acl_xattr and root permissions

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 07:17:47PM -0500, Jerome Charaoui via samba wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to know if, when using acl_xattr to store Windows ACLs in the
> security.NTACL extended attribute, Samba knows to always to set the
> attribute within the "root" context, or will it attempt to do it in the
> (domain) user context that's requesting the change?

Yes, smbd will always use the root context to write these attributes.