Re: [PATCH v18 00/22] Richacls (Core and Ext4)

Steve French
2016-03-16T03:29:09Z

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Volker Lendecke
<Volker.Lendecke@sernet.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 08:45:14AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:11:03AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> > People have long learned that we only have 'alloc' permissions. Any
>> > model that mixes allow and deny ACE is a mistake.
>>
>> People can also learn and change though :-). One of the
>> biggest complaints people deploying Samba on Linux have is the
>> incompatible ACL models.
>
> Just to confirm: I see this a lot in the field. NFSv4 ACLs, while not a
> perfect match for NTFS ACLs are a lot closer much more usable to people
> who want to serve Windows clients.

Yes (and presumably Macs as well)

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Thanks,

Steve