Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The permissions issue is an artifact of how NFS works. Sun designed it
> to deliver entire filesystems over the network (most often /usr and-or
> /home) to trusted clients. "trusted" being the operative word. To get
> Unix permissions to work, the uid on the share and client have to match
> - that's why we also have NIS - but I've never seen NIS actually used
> anywhere, so UIDs tend to be a mix 'n match and almost always devolves
> into "full access" to get it to work.
This is how NFS was designed before 1987, when Kerberos came up....
>
> CIFS work different, it auths users by username and supports per-field
> access control. That's how that protocol works.
This is how NFSv4 works.
BTW: as long as Linux does not support modern ACLs (originally defined by NTFS,
now standardized by NFSv4) Linux will not be able to take advantage from CIFS
ACLs.
Jörg
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