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I'm unironically convinced that a basic Samba share with Active Directory ACLs is actually probably the best possible storage system...but the UI for managing permissions sucks, and most people don't have enough access to set it up the way they want.

Like broadly, for all configuration Hashicorp Vault makes you do, you can achieve a much more useful set of permissions with a Samba fileshare and ACLs (certainly it makes it easy to grant targeted access to specific resources - and with IIS and Kerberos you even have an HTTP API).





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