> We had a set of NT servers lately that we wanted to migrate > to Linux/390 > SAMBA for cost purposes. The cost savings would have been > enormous. The NT > weenies did everything they could to shut us up and "prove" > that we couldn't > do the job, desparately looking for anything and everything > that NT could do > that SAMBA couldn't. They finally focused on the fact that > individual NT > users can define, by userid, who has what privileges on each > file in their > shared folder and SAMBA can't do that unless the > administrator goes in and > does it for them. They managed to turn it into a show-stopper for us. > > Could ACLs do this for us?
Yes. That's exactly what ACLs are for. Think of an ACL as the ability to describe in detail what actions individual security instances can perform on a particular object (eg a file). > If so , where do we get it for 390 Linux? Recompile Samba with the ACL option turned on, and use a underlying filesystem like AFS, XFS or ext3 that supports ACLs for files. >
