Hi everyone!
With about Samba 2.2.1 the IMHO great option "hide unreadable" was
introduced, which generally works fine.
Anyway, I have encountered two problems with this option:
1.
When "hide unreadable" is set globally, "admin users" of a
share do not
see everything (although IMHO they should because they can access the
directories and files as Samba gives kind of "root"-rights to them).
Of course I could unset the option for this specific share, but then
normal users will see everything too...
2.
Unfortunately, the implementation does not seem to take into account
the aspect of ACL's:
I'm using Samba (2.2.3a) on a machine with a Linux 2.2.20 patched with
the so called "Trustees" (http://trustees.sourceforge.net/) which is
not
the POSIX-compliant way of ACL's but a more Novell-like approach: it
doesn't save additional information for every file but just for Users
&&
Directories - there's one configuration file which holds the access
rights.
Unfortunately, the "hide unreadable" option seems to look at the
classic
ext2-file-system-rights of the files and directories and therefore hides
directories a user actually has access to.
Isn't there a way to check the access-rights (not via "trying to open
it" but something similar instead) which really works in this ACL-case
too? What's the behaviour with the ext2-POSIX-ACL-patch or with XFS'
ACLs?
Anyway, THX to the Samba-Team for all your great work!! :))
So long,
Max
--
An expert is someone who can tell you exactly afterwards,
why his prognosis was not correct.
< Winston Churchill >