Re: [PATCH] smb2quota.py: Userspace helper to display quota information for the Linux SMB client file system (CIFS)

[Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>]

or smb3-     …. since "smb3" means more secure ...

On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 4:29 PM ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 12:33 AM Aurélien Aptel <aaptel@suse.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > A general comment on the script I have which I should have mentionned in
> > my first email:
> >
> > Do we really need a separate script for this? I like that we have a
> > simple python example do this kind of stuff as an example and reference,
> > I think it's useful, but installing it makes it yet another utility with an
> > unconventionnal name instead of a new smbinfo subcommand.
>
> I think it would be good to have these tools as part of the actual install.
> They are in python so they are imho much more useful to the target users
> (sysadmins) than a utility written in C.
> (I kind of regret that smbinfo is in C, it should have been python too:-( )
>
> Maybe we just need to decide on a naming prefix for these utilities
> and then there shouldn't be
> a problem to add many small useful tools.
> The nice thing with small python tools is that it is so easy to tweak
> them to specific usecases.
>
> I think they should be installed but perhaps be called:
> smb2-secdesc-ui.py
> smb2-quota.py
>
> regards
> ronnie
>
> >
> > For reminders, we already ship:
> >
> > - mount.cifs
> > - cifs.upcall
> > - cifscreds
> > - pam_cifscreds
> > - smbinfo
> > - getcifsacl
> > - setcifsacl
> > - cifs.idmap
> > - secdesc-ui.py (not installed)
> > - smb2quota.py (not installed)
> >
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Thanks,

Steve