Current approaches to ACL handling
Jeremy Allison
jra at samba.org
Mon Oct 1 12:52:50 MDT 2012
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 02:42:51PM -0400, simo wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-10-01 at 13:28 -0500, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> > What are the current best practices for ACL handling?
> >
> > To my knowledge, it's using EAs to store the ACLs. Is there any in-depth
> > documentation on this implementation? Are there any other mechanisms in use?
>
> We store the Windows ACL in an EA and a matching posix ACL translation
> on the file, plus a sha hash of the ACL so we can be sure they are in
> sync.
>
> I am not aware of any other doc beyond the code.
Well there are some SambaXP talks on it I did a while ago :-).
Sorry.
Jeremy.
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