[plug] POSIX ACL support

[Andrew Howell]

I think the 2.6 kernel has acls and extended attributes natively now.

Anyway I've used posix acls with samba and it worked okay but I found it
a bit fiddly sometimes. This was about a year ago and I never ended up
using really in full production.

We have used trustees though a lot with samba. I much prefer them as
ACLs really are just a pain in the arse, and exposing ACLs through to
windows users is even worse.

Trustees is much nicer as you only do the ACLs on directories which
makes things much simpler and the ACLs are stored in a file rather than
in the filesystem, which makes backups simpler.

Andrew

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 15:13, Ryan wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 15:02, James Devenish wrote:
> > In message <1076396161.873.91.camel at vaio>
> > on Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 02:56:02PM +0800, Ryan wrote:
> > > Helps to know what you are searching for too.
> > 
> > Google for: Linux kernel POSIX ACLs (choose "I'm feeling lucky" and
> > it'll take you to a page that seems to have been updated in the last
> > month -- not sure if this is "the answer", but it's certainly not
> > from "five years ago").
> > 
> > > apt-cache search posix | grep acl
> > 
> > % apt-cache search acl | fgrep kernel
> > kernel-patch-2.4-grsecurity - grsecurity kernel patch - 2.4.x security patch
> > kernel-patch-acl - Extended attributes, and ACL kernel-patches for ext2/ext3
> 
> That I'm feeling lucky site doesn't work for me - that's half the
> problem - I now remember this is probably what made me give up last
> week.  Oddly last week that site had no google cache option - now it
> does.  hmmm...
> 
> update reputations set searching='crap' where user='ryan';
> 
> Thanks,  I'll just look where I should have and figure it out ;)
> 
> Now if anyone has actually _used_ these with Samba and can offer any
> review, I'd love to hear it.
> 
> Ryan
> 
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