Re: POSIX acls over nfs4

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On 02/23/2012 04:42 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 04:33:14PM +0100, steve wrote:
On 02/23/2012 03:40 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:53:28PM +0100, steve wrote:
Hi Jeff
Thanks for the reply. I'm trying to make the files created in a
share take on group rw.

The trouble is that I've already tried setting the acl's via
nfs4_setfacl on the mounted share too (please see details below).
The acl + appears on the unmounted share and behaves as expected
even when it is not mounted. The mounted share however ignores the
acl I've set. I've tried remounting but still no acl is effective.
My workaround is to scan the folder and change the files to group rw
every few seconds.
Without looking at your details, apologies:

First, if you want an ace on a directory to be inherited by files and
directories created under that directory, make sure you're setting the f
and d flags (see nfs4_getfacl -H).

Second, there's a umask problem: posix acl inheritance overrides the
umask, but nfs4 acl inheritance isn't doing that.  (The client combines
the create mode and the umask and sets both together, there's no way for
the server to even tell what the umask is.)

(We should do something about this if we can: maybe modifying the client
to scan the directory acl for any inheritable aces and leaving out the
umask if they're found?  It has the obvious race, but I seem to recall
we live with that in the v3 case.  Or maybe there's something more
clever, but this comes up every now and then and I can't remember a
better solution.)

--b.
Hi again
I have this:
nfs4_getfacl /mnt/CACTUS/dropbox/

A::OWNER@:rwaDxtTcCy
A::GROUP@:rwaDxtcy
A::EVERYONE@:tcy
A:fdi:OWNER@:rwaDxtTcCy
A:fdi:GROUP@:rwaDtcy
A:fdi:EVERYONE@:tcy

but files are created:
steve6@hh3:/mnt/CACTUS/dropbox>   touch h3
   ls -la
total 8
drwxrws--- 2 root   suseusers 4096 Feb 19 11:21 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root   root      4096 Feb 19 11:11 ..
-rw-rw---- 1 steve6 suseusers    0 Feb 19 11:13 h
-rw-r----- 1 steve6 suseusers    0 Feb 19 11:21 h3

where h is a file created on the unmounted share and h3 on the nfs4
mounted share. IOW the file created does not have group rw.
Ahhgghh!!
Right, so see the second point above: what's your umask?  (output of the
"umask" command.)

--b.

Can anyone see anything wrong?

Thanks so much for your patience.
Steve.


OK. I see what you mean. umask 0022
So I can have a group rw with posix but not with nfs4_setfacl:-(

That's on openSUSE who default to 0022. The default on Ubuntu is 0002 so presumably we could have group rw over nfs4 there out of the box?

Is it a lot of work to implement umask override for nfs4? Or make it an option perhaps?

At the moment I'm using a big hammer and scanning the share every 4 seconds to change the permissions of any files created there. My other thought was to have the share on a different partition, umask it to 0002 and export that. But these are workarounds. It would be really good to have the nfs4 acls do it.

Thanks again,
Steve



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