Linux in the Enterprise WAS Re: [plug] Codeweavers

[Steve Grasso]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:32, Peter J. Nicol wrote:
> >  the system was up, users and their ca. 70GB of files migrated with their
> >  existing ACLs intact and the system tested,
>
> How did you do this? 

Jeremy Malcom and Andrew Fury wrote some very clever scripts. Chat to them if 
you'd like to know more (I don't know if they're GPLing them). 

> When you say ACL's are you talking about wrx
> attributes, or an extended set of ACLS?

As close to a one-to-one mapping of permissions from W2k to Samba/Linux as 
possible.

> >  Perhaps there is an elegant solution (no, fiddling with group
> > memberships wouldn't cut it) and if anyone's found one, I'd like to hear
> > about it - but in the time allowed, determined by infrastructure needs,
> > we couldn't do it.
>
> This is one of the biggest problems with the default unix file permissions,
> and I would love to find a standardised method for setting up extended
> ACL's.

Me too :-(