samba - Aug 2002 - ACL in Linux and AIX

Hi,

As I can see in the last mailing list I am not the only one to get problems
with ACL support in Linux.

Whatever the samba version (2.2.4, 2.2.5) the main problem is how acl and
extended attributes can be implemented fine in linux.

I've installed samba on AIX systems where acl is implemented (native) and NT
ACL works fine at each time (the only difficulty there is that nsswitch is
not implemented in AIX).
Now I'm trying to do the same with a SuSE distribution (8.0) of Linux and
what a waste of time ! Downloading, compiling, patching and until now it's
not really succesfull (setfacl) ! Sure something must be wrong  in the way I
try to install all the stuff from aclbits but if someone has a good idea to
help me I'll enjoy it!
May be something should be done to improve the distribution of these
extensions.

Best Regards

Philippe LHOUSTAU

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Hi,

On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 19:57:56 +0400
"phil" <athena35@guetali.fr> wrote:
> Now I'm trying to do the same with a SuSE distribution (8.0) of Linux
> and what a waste of time ! Downloading, compiling, patching and until
> now it's not really succesfull (setfacl) ! Sure something must be wrong
> in the way I try to install all the stuff from aclbits but if someone
> has a good idea to help me I'll enjoy it!
you are right, our kernel is heavily patched with other thingys, so the
bestbits patches will not apply without finetuning. But it is possible, I
have done it myself. You could have a look here: 

ftp://ftp.bestbits.at/contrib/suse/7.3/i386/

Andreas has stored an already patched SuSE 2.4.16 kernel + acl-package
here. I think it should work under 8.0 but I have tested it only with 7.2.
This way, you only have to patch the fileutils.
> May be something should be done to improve the distribution of these
> extensions.
Lighten up! Better days are just around the corner. I think the upcoming
distros are likely to include ext2/3 ACLs.

Until this, try using the SuSE 8.0 with XFS (but be careful with this fs
on production servers). It already includes ACLs, you only have to install
the acl package from the CDs. The pitfall is, it looks like the fileutils
on SuSE 8.0 are not patched...you got to do this yourself again. Together
with building a ACL-enabled Samba, of course.

Hope that helps,
Goetz