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Re: ntsec a mount option?
On Jul 14 14:48, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 07:53:50PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Jul 14 13:28, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 06:30:37PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> >On Jul 14 18:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> this weekend it occured to me that the global "allow_ntsec" setting is
> >> >> rather non-granular. Given that ntsec is only used for file access
> >> >> anyway, wouldn't make it much more sense to remove the CYGWIN option
> >> >> "ntsec" and define a mount option "acl"/"noacl" as on ext2 under Linux
> >> >> instead?
> >> >
> >> >This would also get rid of "smbntsec". "acl" could be default on
> >> >local NTFS and remote NTFS/NFS, "noacl" would be only option for
> >> >FAT and could be default for Samba shares.
> >>
> >> That sounds like a good idea to me. That would mean regularizing the
> >> way we handle this type of thing so that it was possibly a bit mask in
> >> the path_conv structure. It would complicate the path parsing logic a
> >> little but I think it's worth it for the flexibility.
> >
> >I implemented this already locally, following the "acl is always
> >default" idea. It simplified the code throughout and just added the
> >mount options and two flags (MOUNT_NOACL/PATH_NOACL).
>
> FWIW, I love the idea of adding this stuff as mount options. At some point
Ok, cool, I'll apply my patch.
> I'd like to remove the special case handling of /cygdrive and make it just
> another mount option too.
Out of curiosity, how do you imagine that should look like in /etc/fstab?
Corinna
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