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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> The permissions issue is an artifact of how NFS works. Sun designed it |
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> to deliver entire filesystems over the network (most often /usr and-or |
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> /home) to trusted clients. "trusted" being the operative word. To get |
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> Unix permissions to work, the uid on the share and client have to match |
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> - that's why we also have NIS - but I've never seen NIS actually used |
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> anywhere, so UIDs tend to be a mix 'n match and almost always devolves |
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> into "full access" to get it to work. |
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This is how NFS was designed before 1987, when Kerberos came up.... |
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> CIFS work different, it auths users by username and supports per-field |
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> access control. That's how that protocol works. |
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This is how NFSv4 works. |
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BTW: as long as Linux does not support modern ACLs (originally defined by NTFS, |
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now standardized by NFSv4) Linux will not be able to take advantage from CIFS |
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ACLs. |
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Jörg |
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EMail:joerg@××××××××××××××××××××××××.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin |
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joerg.schilling@××××××××××××××××.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ |
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