Re: How does mounting with BACKUP INTENT work in CIFS?

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On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 3:20 PM, pisymbol . <pisymbol@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Richard Sharpe
> <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:52 AM, pisymbol . <pisymbol@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> A colleague and I just witnessed that we could not write an access
>>> time of a file on a CIFS mount using CentOS 6.5 despite the fact we
>>> mounted it with "Backup Intent."
>>>
>>> My current theory is that via CIFS, the DACL checks still apply
>>> because Window backup clients use a different API to access files.
>>> However, I'm not 100% sure.
>>
>> BackupIntent is only useful if you also have SeBackupPrivilege or
>> SeRestorePrivilege or both. That is why it worked when you added
>> BackupOperators, because privileges are associated with groups.
>
> So the domain user in Windows has to have these privileges set AND be
> part of the Backup Operators group for all of this to work?

Btw, I pester only because I had *thought* that those privs were
automatically granted to anyone in the Backup Operator group and the
mount.cifs command should follow suit.

-aps
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