dos filemode and posix ACLs

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Thu Dec 15 17:17:47 GMT 2005


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Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:52:44PM -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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>> Jeremy,
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>> It appears that 'dos filemode = yes' will still not let me
>> change an ACL on a file that I have write access to.
>>
>> 	set_canon_ace_list: sys_acl_set_file type file failed for
>> 	  file afile (Operation not permitted).
>>
>> Is this how things are supposed to work?  I know you make
>> a change for taking ownership of a file.  But I thought that
>> enabling 'dos filemode' should allow permission changes a well.
> 
> Errrr. Maybe. What did we decide ?

I don't remember what we decided, but I'll open it up again.
IMO 'dos filemode' should apply to setting ACLs as well.




cheers, jerry
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