06-20-2007
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Originally Posted by
the_learner
What I want to know is whether the program will work if CIFS (or SMBFS) was used to mount the volume. (or any other protocol other than NFS)
For plain file reading that should be okay. Of course, not necessarily apply if you use chmod or other filesystem-specific features.
Try smbmount if your kernel doesn't have cifs compiled in (or in some distros without mount.cifs), or if possible just recompile the kernel with the needed option.
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getcifsacl
GETCIFSACL(1) CIFS Access Control List Tools GETCIFSACL(1)
NAME
getcifsacl - Userspace helper to display an ACL in a security descriptor for Common Internet File System (CIFS)
SYNOPSIS
getcifsacl [-v|-r] {file system object}
DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the cifs-utils suite.
getcifsacl is a userspace helper program for the Linux CIFS client file system. It is intended to display a security descriptor including
ACL for a file system object. It is best utilized when an option of cifsacl is specified when mounting a cifs share in conjunction with
winbind facility of Samba suite.
Fields of an ACE such as SID, type, flags, and mask are displayed separated by /. Numeric values of type, flags, and mask are displayed in
hexadecimal format.
OPTIONS
-v
Print version number and exit.
-r
Display a security descriptor in raw mode. Values such as type and flags are displayed in hexadecimal format, a SID is not mapped to a
name.
NOTES
Kernel support for getcifsacl/setcifsacl utilities was initially introduced in the 2.6.37 kernel.
SEE ALSO
mount.cifs(8), winbindd(8), setcifsacl(1)
AUTHOR
Shirish Pargaonkar wrote the getcifsacl program.
The Linux CIFS Mailing list is the preferred place to ask questions regarding these programs.
cifs-utils 08/19/2011 GETCIFSACL(1)