RE: NFSv4: Identifying users & groups (Fwd)

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From: Boris Z. (boris@conley.com)
Date: 08/20/98-05:20:15 PM Z


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From: "Boris Z." <boris@conley.com>
Subject: RE: NFSv4: Identifying users & groups (Fwd)
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:20:15 -0700



On Thursday, August 20, 1998 11:43 AM, Brent Callaghan [SMTP:Brent.Callaghan@Eng.Sun.COM] wrote:
> 
> > On Thu Aug 20 16:50:36 1998, Mike Eisler wrote:
> > > 
> > > I'd like to continue to find a place for the group id in the
> > > attributes part
> > > of the protocol, and let NT servers and other non-UNIX servers
> > > indicate that
> > > they don't support group ids.
> > >
> > 
> > Actually NT supports Owner AND Group for file on NTFS file systems.
> 
> ... and the owner can be a group!
>

If the owner is a group, it can be encoded in the owner's field.
As Carl correctly pointed in NTFS we can associate many ACLs (group's or user's) with 
a file. However, we need totally new way of expressing this ( GET_ACLS(cfh) ? )


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