On 03/18/2011 05:34 PM, Tim Golden wrote:
On 18/03/2011 9:28 PM, Randy Syring wrote:
The issue I am running into is that I am not sure how to copy files from
windows to the Linux and preserve ACLs.
I assume that you only want to preserve them as metadata, not
to map them somehow to whatever security model obtains on the
Linux disk?
Correct.
The only kind of thing I can come up with (hand-wavingly) is to
convert the SD of each file to its equivalent SDDL and then to
track that along with the file. I was going to suggest stuffing
it in an ADS but presumably that wouldn't survive the journey
to Linux either. No doubt you could contrive some kind of
parallel metadata/database which could hold the info...
Ok, I read up on my accronyms. Is there anything in the windows python
landscape that implements SD <=> SDDL or would be a building block to
doing so? Looks like the following might fit the bill:
http://code.google.com/p/pysddl/source/browse/trunk/sddl.py/sddl.py
I'm also wondering what the best method would be for creating this
information and sending it to the backup server. Should I create a temp
file every time I do backups, send the file to the server, then delete
the file. Or should I cache the info somewhere. Any suggestions?
The additional complication with ACLs (especially when it comes
to restoring them) is coping with the levels of inheritance and
override.
Dully noted. Any advice or code examples that might help with this?
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