From: marius aamodt eriksen <marius@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: Re: Will NFSv4 be accepted?
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 02:18:48 -0400
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* Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> [020814 21:13]:

> On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 23:34, Brian Pawlowski wrote:
> > But ACL support over the wire is an argument for V4 - and fine grained
> > authorization coupled to strong authentication makes for a flexible 
> > security package.
> 
> ACL works in NFSv2 and nicely in NFSv3 - again the problems Linux has
> are the client failing to respect basic NFS rules of operation.

there is no over-the-wire specification for sending or receving ACLs
on NFSv{2,3} - hence the server may choose to obey them, but an
arbitrary client cannot set them, or view them.

marius.

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