Bug 1110018

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #999484 +++

Description of problem:

We are not able to set deny acls on samba shares. samba shares include rhs volumes, xfs partitions. This might be because deny acls are not supported with samba. However we are not sure about this. So this bug would be used to track this issue. 

If we confirm samba does not support deny acls, we would convert this bug as documentation bug to include the information in rhs documentation.



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
samba-3.6.9-159.1

How reproducible:
always

--- Additional comment from RHEL Product and Program Management on 2013-08-21 08:08:57 EDT ---

Since this issue was entered in bugzilla, the release flag has been
set to ? to ensure that it is properly evaluated for this release.

--- Additional comment from Christopher R. Hertel on 2013-08-21 21:34:44 EDT ---

The vfs_glusterfs module does not support storage and retrieval of Windows ACLs. Instead, it converts the Windows ACLs into POSIX ACLs (as best as it can) and stores the POSIX ACLs in the file system. This ensures that other applications and access methods are all obeying the same access rules. When Windows asks to read a Security Descriptor (SD), the POSIX ACLs are translated back into Windows format (as best as we can) and the SD is constructed from the result.

POSIX doesn't have a concept of Deny ACLs, so there is no way to retrieve a Deny ACL using this mechanism.

--- Additional comment from Raghavendra Talur on 2013-08-27 01:30:46 EDT ---

You can use acl_xattr object on top of glusterfs to support NT_ACLs.
But we have not tested its integration throughly yet.

--- Additional comment from Christopher R. Hertel on 2013-08-27 14:17:17 EDT ---

Agreed.

The solution is to test the addition of the vfs_acl_xattr module above the vfs_glusterfs module in the Samba VFS stack. This stacking should work, but we have not tested it fully to verify it for production use.

--- Additional comment from Lalatendu Mohanty on 2013-09-11 08:44:13 EDT ---

We should also take this bug as high severity because it is important from Windows security point of view. 

In Windows if a set of permissions given to a to a particular group and we can set deny acl for a for a particular user from the group. While calculating the final permission for the user, deny acl take higher precedence and the deny acl will be applicable for the user.

--- Additional comment from Christopher R. Hertel on 2013-10-02 15:39:49 EDT ---

This simply requires QE testing with the vfs_acl_xattr module.