Re: Re: [NFS] NFSv4 ACL and POSIX interaction / mask, draft-ietf-nfsv4-acls-00 not ready

From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
To: nfsv4@ietf.org
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	Sam Falkner <Sam.Falkner@sun.com>,
	Spencer Shepler <spencer.shepler@sun.com>,
	nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, Brian Pawlowski <beepy@netapp.com>
Subject: Re: Re: [NFS] NFSv4 ACL and POSIX interaction / mask, draft-ietf-nfsv4-acls-00 not ready
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 21:02:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607142102.45216.agruen@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060714175930.GD20999@fieldses.org>

On Friday, 14. July 2006 19:59, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> For a server that doesn't support the new attributes, the client still
> has available any of the current options: give up on non-destructive
> chmod, or fall back on representing mask bits with DENIES.

Maybe not what you meant, but shouldn't the client rely on the server to do 
"the right thing" when it sees a mode SETATTR? I think it would be a bad idea 
for the client to guess such details as which exact file security model a 
server implements. Instead, the server should be responsible for doing what 
the client is asking for (and erring towards more restrictive permissions if 
necessary).

Andreas

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