Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:09:36 -0500 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 02/18] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available [ver #6] | From | Steve French <> |
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On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 08:54:32AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 06:05:01AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote: >> > We don't need to ape Windows in everything. >> > The coming ACL disaster will show that (we will go from an ACL >> > model that is slightly too complex to use, to one that is impossibly >> > complex to use :-). >> >> Care to elaborate? > > POSIX ACLs -> RichACLs (NT-style). Not criticising Andreas here, > people are asking for this. But Windows ACLs are a nightmare > beyond human comprehension :-). In the "too complex to be > usable" camp.
Not much choice - even community colleges now have to teach students about this ACL model in their sysadmin courses.
>> And what would native ACL support mean for Samba? > > RichACLs'll do it, but I feel sorry for the admins :-).
Yes - RichACLs and Windows ACLs allow you to set some strange combinations of permssion bits. RichACLs will make a more natural mapping for Samba and NFSv4 - and it is far too late to remove the requirement for Windows and MacOS (among other clients) support.
-- Thanks,
Steve
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