Hi, I'm using a pair of OpenFiler (2.2) systems, and I need to setup NFS shares that will be used by various existing Linux servers to offload their storage, and these NFS shares must hold files with multiple owners/rights (qpopuser, qpopgroup, httpd, www-data, root, etc.).
My OpenFiler is also acting as a CIFS server for Windows client, and connected to an Active Directory for the user authentication/database. So, I initially created my NFS shares with "Domain users" as the primary group, then tweaked manually the ownership/right of the NFS shares in order to use them with my servers. Everything was right, until I re-registered my OpenFiler to the Active Directory server and it triggered the apply_configuration() function in OpenFler which resetted recursively the ownerships of the files on my NFS shares. So, I thought it could be useful to have a third choice in the "Group access configuration" section, which would disable enforcement of any ownership on a share, and let the administrator handle this manually. Here is a patch I'm currently using on my OpenFiler in order to implement this: - it add a "Custom/manual access control" choice in "Group access configuration" - and change the <access/> tag from <access public="(yes|no)" /> to <access type="(custom|public|controlled)" /> This "Custom/manual access control" might also be useful for SMB shares, allowing Windows client to set custom ACLs on files/directories. Regards, Jérôme Augé
openfiler-custom_access_control.patch
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