From: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar@xxxxxxxxx> Manpage contents for cifs mount option cifsacl Signed-off-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar@xxxxxxxxx> --- mount.cifs.8 | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/mount.cifs.8 b/mount.cifs.8 index 7e0f117..6c67b4a 100644 --- a/mount.cifs.8 +++ b/mount.cifs.8 @@ -272,6 +272,25 @@ Do not allow POSIX ACL operations even if server would support them\&. The CIFS client can get and set POSIX ACLs (getfacl, setfacl) to Samba servers version 3\&.0\&.10 and later\&. Setting POSIX ACLs requires enabling both XATTR and then POSIX support in the CIFS configuration options when building the cifs module\&. POSIX ACL support can be disabled on a per mount basis by specifying "noacl" on mount\&. .RE .PP +cifsacl +.RS 4 +Allow operations with file objects which posses CIFS/NTFS ACL and Security Descriptors\&. +.sp +This option is used to work with file objects which posses CIFS/NTFS ACL +instead of POSIX ACL and Security Descriptors on shares mounted from +servers such as Windows which do not support unix extensions. + +It is used in conjuction with files /etc/nsswitch.conf and smb.conf +and utilities cifs.idmap and winbindd. Please refer to the manpages +for utilities cifs.idmap and winbindd for the usage. + +For commands which either display or modify unix mode and permissions +such as ls, stat, and chmod or commands which modify owner and group +such as chown and chgrp, to work on file system objects that belong +to shares mounted from servers such as Windows, this mount option +is necessary. +.RE +.PP nocase .RS 4 Request case insensitive path name matching (case sensitive is the default if the server suports it)\&. -- 1.6.0.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
