The permissions that a user obtains for NFS shares will boil down to effective permissions. NFS doesn’t support ACLs, but it does honor them for Mac OS X NFS clients when bound to the directory.: if a user is granted read/write via an ACL, they WILL have read/write access via NFS. However, there are a few things to note here.
First and foremost, granular ACL’s won’t translate completely. Secondly, although you might have effective write privileges via ACL’s, if you don’t have write privileges via POSIX, it will *look* like you don’t have privileges when you do an `ls` on the mounted NFS volume, however, if you try to read or write a file, it will work without issue. Poorly written software might inspect the POSIX permissions and determine that you don’t have access when you really do. Most software will attempt to read/write an asset and will report errors when encountered (as it should). Lastly, ACL inheritance IS honored over NFS as well, so any files/dirs your users will create will have the appropriate ACL’s assigned on the backend, though displayed POSIX permissions once again won’t be especially accurate.
