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Re: ntsec a mount option?


On Jul 14 13:28, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 06:30:37PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Jul 14 18:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> 
> >> this weekend it occured to me that the global "allow_ntsec" setting is
> >> rather non-granular.  Given that ntsec is only used for file access
> >> anyway, wouldn't make it much more sense to remove the CYGWIN option
> >> "ntsec" and define a mount option "acl"/"noacl" as on ext2 under Linux
> >> instead?
> >
> >This would also get rid of "smbntsec".  "acl" could be default on
> >local NTFS and remote NTFS/NFS, "noacl" would be only option for
> >FAT and could be default for Samba shares.
> 
> That sounds like a good idea to me.  That would mean regularizing the
> way we handle this type of thing so that it was possibly a bit mask in
> the path_conv structure.  It would complicate the path parsing logic a
> little but I think it's worth it for the flexibility.

I implemented this already locally, following the "acl is always
default" idea.  It simplified the code throughout and just added the
mount options and two flags (MOUNT_NOACL/PATH_NOACL).


Corinna

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