ACL support

[cppp]

Hi, was just thinking that a nice feature to have in the freenas gui would be full ACL support.

 

[dlavigne]

Are you referring to Windows ACLs? FreeNAS is designed so that you can configure enough permissions to give access to a CIFS share, with the expectation that the client will manage the desired ACLs on the Windows side.

 

[cppp]

Is there any plan to be able to force root directory ACL's on the actual filer using freenas in the future?

 

[dlavigne]

Not that I know of. Why do you see it as an advantage to do so?

 

[cyberjock]

If you really wanted to 'force' it you could create a cronjob that simply sets the permissions to whatever you want at whatever interval you want. I have some files that get messed up permissions because of the different users, so I have a script that runs every 4 hours that fixes any potential issues.

 

[titan_rw]

I know this thread is about windows acl's, but do the various samba options help? For instance, I set umask on one of my shares to that files / directories always get created with g+w, even when the client doesn't specify group write access. I'm not sure if you can do similar with windows acl's.