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From: Tim Priebe <tim@iafrica.com.na>
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To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@freebsd.org>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Samba and read-only attribute
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:10:07 +0200
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I believe there is an option is samba to have all of the files owned by user X
that samba runs as, and have samba look after all of the access permissions. I
hope this is accurate, it was a couple of months back that I read the
documentation. What I am talking about is in the documentation, but I do not
have time to look for it now.

Tim.

On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote:
> I've installed a samba fileserver for a client, and it seems that in
> scoping the job I failed to discover that the customer makes extensive use
> of the read-only attribute with the old NT file server, setting RO on
> files which should not be accidentally changed.  
> 
> The problem lies in the fact that with the old system any user who had rw
> access to the directory and the files in it could also set the RO
> attribute.  With FreeBSD, only the owner can change the permissions on a
> file.
> 
> I've read the samba docs and everywhere it seems to say that samba is
> never less restrictive than the underlying Unix filesystem.  I've e-mailed
> the samba mailling list and heard nothing.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea how I can provide the customer with the desired
> functionality?  I'm prepared to hack the samba code and the ufs code if
> necessary, but I'd prefer not to do that, of course.
> 
> Please respond quickly. There is urgency in resolving this issue.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Danny


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