Re: ACL evaluation on ADD operations (ITS#4556)

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Monday, November 10, 2008 9:04 PM +0100 Pierangelo Masarati 
<ando@sys-net.it> wrote:

> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> > Currently, ACL evaluation doesn't behave the way people always expect on
> > ADD operations (see ITS#4556).  This has been fixed in HEAD, but not
> > currently applied to RE24.  I'm currently working on 2.4.13, and wanted
> > to gather general feedback on whether or not it is thought this change
> > should be included.  It is a distinct change in behavior, and will break
> > expected behavior for some folks.
>
> Wasn't it suggested to add a configuration switch to allow turning it
> off, at least for the lifespan of 2.4?  Much like what happened with
> schemacheck.

Well, no such keyword exists right now in HEAD. ;)  If it gets added, then 
yeah, this would be a no-brainer. :)  Howard says he'll take a look at 
doing that.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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