Re: setcifsacl: Shouldn't 0x0 be a valid mask?

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Do you have an example of doing the same thing via

"smbcacls" (from Linux) or "icacls" (or cacls.exe) from Windows?

On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 11:14 AM Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I was looking at using S-1-2-3-4 to take away rights via ownership and
> granting no access (but not denying it either) makes sense as access
> is granted via group membership. Microsofts documentation seems to
> suggest the a 0x0 mask is valid.
> Quote from
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2008-R2-and-2008/dd125370(v=ws.10)?redirectedfrom=MSDN
> "When you add the Owner Rights security principal to objects, you can
> specify what permissions are given to the owner of an object. For example
> you can specify in the access control entry (ACE) of an object that the
> owner of a particular object is given Read permissions or you can specify
> NULL permissions to an object, which grants the owner of the object no
> permissions."
>
> Here is example output:
> # setcifsacl -a "ACL:S-1-2-3-4:0x0/0x0/0x0" bruno-test
> verify_ace_mask: Invalid mask 0x0 (value 0x0)
>
> Besides the owner rights case, I think this might also make sense in an ACL
> to break inheritence, though in that case there might be other ways to
> do that.
>
> Unless having a 0x0 mask actually breaks things, it doesn't seem that
> it is a good idea to prohibit it.



-- 
Thanks,

Steve



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