Hello,

We’ve been using nfs4_get/setfacl to manage nfs4 acls as an alternative to the 
mm commands for a few months. It mostly works pretty well – in particular it’s 
simple to set permissions with inheritance flags recursively on a directory 
structure and it’s easy to add an ace for a user/group without affecting 
existing permissions.

We’ve noticed though that when permissions have been changed via SMB they get 
these DACL ACL flags set:

# mmgetacl NewTest
#NFSv4 ACL
#owner:ICR\rhorton
#group:ICR\infotech
#ACL flags:
#  DACL_PRESENT
#  DACL_AUTO_INHERITED
#  SACL_AUTO_INHERITED
#  NULL_SACL
user:ICR\rhorton:r-x-:allow:FileInherit:DirInherit
(X)READ/LIST (-)WRITE/CREATE (-)APPEND/MKDIR (X)SYNCHRONIZE (X)READ_ACL  
(X)READ_ATTR  (X)READ_NAMED
(-)DELETE    (-)DELETE_CHILD (-)CHOWN        (X)EXEC/SEARCH (-)WRITE_ACL 
(-)WRITE_ATTR (-)WRITE_NAMED

…which upsets nfs4_getfacl:

# nfs4_getfacl NewTest
# file: NewTest
A::bin:C
Bad Ace Type:768
Error while printing ACE.

It gets worse if someone does a nfs4_getfacl -R -a <new ace> as it sometimes 
ends up replacing the existing ACEs with one for a ‘bin’ user.

I’m guessing that with ACL flags present the presented system.nfs4_acl extended 
attribute isn’t in a form that nfs4-acl-tools expects..?

So…

  1.  What do the DACL flags actually do? Where are they stored? Is there a way 
to check for / modify them? I can see them referenced in 
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale/5.1.9?topic=users-authorizing-file-protocol
 but still not entirely clear. Is it possible to get the Samba gpfs module to 
not set them? I’m guessing not from 
https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/vfs_gpfs.8.html
  2.  Am I right in thinking this is a Scale bug? If so is it possible to get 
it fixed 😉 ?
  3.  How do other people manage ACLs?

Background: It’s an ESS5000. Client access is via a remote mount to an HPC 
system, a large number of Windows/Mac/few Linux SMB clients and a handful of 
NFS (4) clients via CES. We’re on 5.1.9, although the cluster and fs versions 
are a bit behind. -k is nfs4.

Any thoughts appreciated!

Thanks,
Rob

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