From patchwork Wed Jul 13 16:34:35 2011 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Shirish Pargaonkar X-Patchwork-Id: 972772 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by demeter1.kernel.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p6DGSJ8g024104 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:31:28 GMT Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756183Ab1GMQ22 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:28:28 -0400 Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.213.174]:39786 "EHLO mail-yx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755811Ab1GMQ21 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:28:27 -0400 Received: by yxi11 with SMTP id 11so2478893yxi.19 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:28:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:x-mailer; bh=ZGnmYgf0TU/Hip4eZQd2TQ/kzXBnEcj+Oz0G3optF9k=; b=rMm8Y63xWS4zx5jaLbU29Iqxa1Bw2KGXgVfmk6utcFFVTDZMEpoUUWSszG8z4PRCQ+ 4EBa9Qt1aCq0DpRptR5mC9/BPyqcQz++dcAShNHGmpW6WSwReaoZWIA+H2ln8Ug0h626 x7SNeHqPJIJ+uARbHbChx/3goiR4h1yf5dcqQ= Received: by 10.236.66.12 with SMTP id g12mr1608462yhd.404.1310574507122; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:28:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([32.97.110.58]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e24sm1665895yhk.65.2011.07.13.09.28.25 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:28:26 -0700 (PDT) From: shirishpargaonkar@gmail.com To: jlayton@samba.org Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, Shirish Pargaonkar Subject: [PATCH] cifs-utils: manpages - Add contents for mount option cifsacl Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:34:35 -0500 Message-Id: <1310574875-22079-1-git-send-email-shirishpargaonkar@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.6.0.2 Sender: linux-cifs-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org X-Greylist: IP, sender and recipient auto-whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (demeter1.kernel.org [140.211.167.41]); Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:31:28 +0000 (UTC) From: Shirish Pargaonkar Manpage contents for cifs mount option cifsacl Signed-off-by: Shirish Pargaonkar --- 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)\&.