samba - Aug 2010 - samba posix_acls.c file and dir permissions

I did not get any response . pinging it again.

Dear samba team,
 please help me in understanding these.

1) in samba posix_acls.c why samba always setting the READ access for
the file and READ and WRITE access for directory ?
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case S_IRUSR:
		/* Ensure owner has read access. */
		pace->perms |= S_IRUSR;
		if (is_directory)
			pace->perms |= (S_IWUSR|S_IXUSR);
		and_bits = unix_perms_to_acl_perms(and_bits, S_IRUSR,
S_IWUSR, S_IXUSR);
		or_bits = unix_perms_to_acl_perms(or_bits, S_IRUSR,
S_IWUSR, S_IXUSR);

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2) I have connected a samba share from the device onto my windows xp
machine.. when I tried modify subfolder owner  write permissions , it is
simply ignoring that and setting the write permission again. ofcourse
acl are enabled on that share.

Thanks
Suresh

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 07:50:47PM -0400, suresh.kandukuru at emc.com
wrote:
> I did not get any response . pinging it again.
> 
> Dear samba team,
>  please help me in understanding these.
> 
> 1) in samba posix_acls.c why samba always setting the READ access for
> the file and READ and WRITE access for directory ?
> ----------
> case S_IRUSR:
> 		/* Ensure owner has read access. */
> 		pace->perms |= S_IRUSR;
> 		if (is_directory)
> 			pace->perms |= (S_IWUSR|S_IXUSR);
> 		and_bits = unix_perms_to_acl_perms(and_bits, S_IRUSR,
> S_IWUSR, S_IXUSR);
> 		or_bits = unix_perms_to_acl_perms(or_bits, S_IRUSR,
> S_IWUSR, S_IXUSR);
> 
> -----------
> 2) I have connected a samba share from the device onto my windows xp
> machine.. when I tried modify subfolder owner  write permissions , it is
> simply ignoring that and setting the write permission again. ofcourse
> acl are enabled on that share.
That's simply the way the POSIX ACL mapping is designed.
Onwers are given read (and for a directory) write access
by default. This maps what users expect, that the owner
of a file/directory always has access to it.

If you want more precise Windows ACL mapping, layer the
acl_xattr module on top of the default POSIX ACL mapping,
which will present a Windows view of the underlying ACL
mapping.

Jeremy.