linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v3 20/45] richacl: Automatic Inheritance

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Date:	Wed, 13 May 2015 13:55:31 -0700
From:	Jeremy Allison <jra@...ba.org>
To:	Andreas Grünbacher 
	<andreas.gruenbacher@...il.com>
Cc:	Jeremy Allison <jra@...ba.org>,
	Frank Filz <ffilzlnx@...dspring.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v3 20/45] richacl: Automatic Inheritance

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:47:44PM +0200, Andreas Grünbacher wrote:
> 2015-05-13 22:28 GMT+02:00 Jeremy Allison <jra@...ba.org>:
> > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:22:21PM +0200, Andreas Grünbacher wrote:
> >>
> >> That being said, a daemon like Samba can "fake" full Automatic
> >> Inheritance by creating files and then updating the inherited acls
> >> appropriately. This will inevitably be racy, but unless someone
> >> implements a way to create files without a mode, that's the closest
> >> Samba can get.
> >
> > On Windows systems the client fake (no quotes :-) full Automatic
> > Inheritance by creating files and then updating the inherited acls
> > appropriately.
> 
> Hmm, interesting, are you *absolutely* sure about that? Is there
> anywhere I can look that up?

Hmm. Just realized we may be talking about different things :-).

In SMB/Samba the clients can create a file with no ACL, and
the directory ACL is auto inherited. *That* we fake in
Samba by creating then updating.

But in Windows there are the concept of "inherited" ACE
entries, which can come from parents of parents of parents
(etc.) objects. When a client modifies one of these on an
upper level directory, the server doesn't do the auto
updating that the vision of the file system might lead
you to expect - that updating is done by a tree walk
by the client.
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