http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=964971 http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=964971#c4 Noel Power changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flags|needinfo?(nopower@suse.com) | --- Comment #4 from Noel Power --- (In reply to Christian Boltz from comment #3)

Seth Arnold asked me to forward this question to you:

I -do- have to ask, if this is the first time they actually need it, could they store their acls in samba.NTACL instead? why does their acl have to live in the security. xattr namespace?

so afaics this functionality has been in place for quite some time, could another namespace be used ? I suppose it could, but even so that would not happen in the short term (so we suse at least would need a patch), making such a change would require some sort of migration path. As I understand it (from looking back through the archives) one of the original reasons for choosing the security namepace was there was a hope to eventually implement a LSM module that understands these ACLs (and move away from interpreting them in smbd) The historical discussion is here http://samba-technical.samba.narkive.com/eHtOW8DE/nt-acls-using-the-security... where it seems the decision was to keep the security namespace. Hope this answers your question -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.