[ros-dev] Idea for NTFS replacement
Robert Köpferl
rob at koepferl.de
Thu Mar 31 00:50:48 CEST 2005
Since not so long time, also ext3 (2?) supports ACLs. They're (as you
tell) however build on different IDs. But this is a problem which also
occours between different linux installations. Until you strictly use
equal UIDs and GIDs. WinNT/ROS does also just use GIDs/UIDs. They're
however GUIDs. Thus a simple workaround would be a flag for the SAM to
just use 16-bit IDs or an option to manually specify an ID.
BTW. GUIDs in NTLM are organized as
[32Bit-Domaincontrolerspecific][32-Bit User/GroupID with speciall bits]
Andrew "Silver Blade" Greenwood wrote:
> Just to chime in here... Something I've thought about recently regarding
> file systems...
>
> I believe there was going to be an ext2 driver in ReactOS. Am I right in
> thinking that complications arise because of the different ways in which
> security is implemented for different operating systems? And thus if you
> use ext2 from Windows or NTFS from Linux, you essentially have
> unrestricted access to all files (non-encrypted, of course.)
>
> One possible solution might be to provide some sort of GROUPS and PASSWD
> "emulation" in ReactOS for each user account, so when NTFS is being
> used, the NT style security descriptors are used, whereas when ext2 is
> used, the Linux style is used. I'm assuming here of course that Linux
> uses the group and user IDs for the security info - I could be wrong.
> Still fairly new to Linux.
>
> The actual emulation implementation wouldn't be too difficult as it'd
> just be a case of storing the Linux GID and UID for a user - something
> which should be possible. Maybe the ext2 driver would be responsible for
> converting the NT security descriptor into a Linux one? Or maybe a
> common module (linuxids.dll or something?) could perform this conversion.
>
> I'm probably dreaming away here as if it was THAT easy, surely it would
> have been done already huh?
>
>
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