Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Mar 2016 08:45:14 -0700 | From | Jeremy Allison <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v18 00/22] Richacls (Core and Ext4) |
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:11:03AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 05:11:51PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > > > while breaking a lot of assumptions, > > > > The model is designed specifically to be compliant with the POSIX > > permission model. What assumptions are you talking about? > > 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.
Whilst I have sympathy with your intense dislike of the Windows ACL model, this comes down to the core of "who do we serve ?" IMHO we should serve the users (although I must confess I'd look awful in a TRON suit :-).
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