ACLs for CIFS/SMB shares [PSARC/2008/641 FastTrack timeout 10/27/2008]

[Nicolas Williams]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:19:34AM -0600, Doug McCallum wrote:
> Nicolas Williams wrote:
> >On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:43:31AM -0600, Tim Haley wrote:
> >  
> >>	CIFS is the only protocol we currently support that has the
> >>	concept of shares (resources in sharemgr/share terms) so this
> >>	implementation will initially only provide support for CIFS.
> >>    
> >
> >That can't possibly be right.  NFS has long had a concept of shares, and
> >share ACLs too.
> 
> The NFS host access control (which is being added to SMB as well) is
> not ACL based.

I was specifically responding to the claim about the notion of shares.

> They are strictly based off of the client IP address and not based on 
> the user's ID.

That's true, but many people call these ACLs.  An ACL need not have a
particular form in order to be deserving of the term "ACL."

Nico
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