native posix permissions
Cole, Timothy D.
timothy_d_cole at md.northgrum.com
Fri Jun 23 21:14:55 GMT 2000
Are the extensions generalized enough to cope with e.g. POSIX ACLs? If so,
it'd seem a significantly better deal than trying to approximate them with
NT ACLs (or at least a good alternative scheme for users to choose from).
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Allison [SMTP:jeremy at valinux.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 16:19
> To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-TECHNICAL
> Subject: Re: native posix permissions
>
> Claus Färber wrote:
> >
> > Hallo.
> >
> > I wonder if it's a good idea to add calls to the samba servers that
> > would export _unix_ file permission read and write functions to clients.
> >
> > These could for example be used by Win32 shell extensions to handle the
> > native unix permissions directly, thus avoiding any strange effects (for
> > the average user) introduced by the permission bit <-> acl mapping.
> >
> > I wonder what would be the best and easiest strategy to implement that:
> > ioctls or rpcs?
>
> HP have already done this for the CIFS/9000 product.
> It was done via new trans2 calls in the base SMB protocol
> as specified by the UNIX-Extentions to CIFS document.
>
> We should be integrating that code (thanks HP) shortly
> (once we're out of printing hell :-) :-).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeremy Allison,
> Samba Team.
>
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