[Acl-Devel] Problems with ACL over NFS

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

Hello,

On Friday, 28 April 2006 02:06, George Montana Harkin wrote:
> Hello,
> 	We seem to be having some issues with ACL's over NFS. When running a batch
> script to update permissions on a directory, some of the acls specified are
> not applied at all. Usualy only the last specified ACL is set, and the rest
> are ignored. The same behavior occurs regardless of issuing only one
> setfacl command for all the acl entries or one setfacl command per acl
> entry. If we put a delay in the acl script between the running of the list
> of setfacl commands, the ACLs seem to be set correctly.

I could reproduce this locally. My current guess is that something got broken 
with invalidating ACLs cached on the client side. (All the effects you 
describe can be explained by this; in my tests, the ACLs on the server differ 
from the cached ACLs in some cases.) Investigating.

Thanks for the bug report,
Andreas.