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Date:      Tue, 23 Jan 2001 07:16:19 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        walton@onlinemusic.com
Cc:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: suiddir and samba
Message-ID:  <3A6DA043.4DB97A14@elischer.org>
References:  <3A689FFE.16050.192CED5@localhost> <3A6C8BE4.3978.1756EE6@localhost>

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Dave Walton wrote:
> 
> On 21 Jan 2001, at 23:10, Doug White wrote:
> 
> > No, turn off suiddir and turn on inherit perms.  They are mutually
> > exclusive.

what are "inherrit_perms"? I can;t see them in LINT..

If theyare a samba thing then ok, but they shouldn't be Mutually exclusive.
SUIDDIR was written for using with samba and netatalk, so apple and
widows users would see the same ownerships they expect..

> 
> They are?  By my reading of the docs, inherit perms deals with the
> permission bits, and suiddir deals with ownership.  What am I
> missing?
> 
> > Read the smb.conf manpage about
> > inherit perms and directory mode and it should clear things up.
> 
> That's what I've done, and it's led me to the confusion above.
> 
> > And as I've said, if you're using 'inherit perms' you don't need suiddir.
> 
> But what about file ownership?
> 
> > At my last job I did a combination of inherit and perm overriding for a
> > large public file store (win98 sucks -- couldn't they have put a proper
> > permissions browser on it?).
> 
> Why bother?  It's not even a proper operating system...
> 
> Dave
> 
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