On Feb 29 09:16, Matthieu CASTET wrote: > Hi, > > Dave Korn <dave.korn <at> artimi.com> writes: > > > > > Because it has to emulate unix perms by relating uid/gid to windows RIDs, > which are owned, allocated and > > controlled by the system, and not under the arbitrary choice of the user, so > the semantics wouldn't be the > > same even if we did create ACLs with unrecognised SIDs on them. > > > Another question, why isn't possible to mount the partition with a special > flag > (like managed mode), where the permision are stored in a database instead of > trying to map them on windows perms.
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