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List:       linux-nfsv4
Subject:    Re: nfs4-acl-tools-0.3.3 fails to parse ACEs with empty masks
From:       "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields () fieldses ! org>
Date:       2009-09-25 15:37:11
Message-ID: 20090925153711.GB27508 () fieldses ! org
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 04:49:42PM -0700, Paul B. Henson wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> 
> > > Will http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/nfs4-acl-tools
> > > still be the place where new releases can be found?
> >
> > Yes.  Do you need a new release with this patch soon?
> >
> > I notice David left a few additional patches in a "dev" branch in his
> > repository, so I was thinking I should go through those, apply them if
> > they make sense, then put out another release.
> 
> I don't know that this is the appropriate forum for such a discussion, but
> the current multitude of tools for configuring access control is rather
> confusing to end users. There's ls and chmod for basic mode bits,
> getfacl/setfacl for POSIX acl's, and nfs4_getfacl/nfs4_setfacl for NFSv4
> acl's.
> 
> The approach taken by Solaris was to integrate everything into ls and
> chmod, which is pretty handy. It would be nice if there was a mid to
> long term plan for integrating access control under Linux into the base
> utilities.

Yes, a more uniform interface would be better.  If there's someone with
time to work on it, I'd be happy to discuss their plans.  They should
probably also talk to Andreas Gruenbacher (agruen@suse.de).

--b.
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