samba-2.0.5-pre1 - PLEASE TEST
Jeremy Allison
jallison at cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Thu Jul 15 20:20:55 GMT 1999
Cole, Timothy D. wrote:
>
> Notice that the comment (which is from my original patch) indicates
> that the limits should be enforced on _modified_ bits. The existing code in
> 2.0.5-pre1 will enforce the limits on all bits, whether or not they have
> been modified relative to the existing permissions. I do not think the
> latter behavior is desirable.
>
I'm glad you posted those scenarios. I didn't understand
the objections before, now I do :-).
The reason I coded it up the way you saw is that is was
intuitive and worked the way the admin would intend and
in the same way as the other masks/force mode parameters
in Samba. The cases you quoted show that this may not be
exactly what was desired :-).
I'll make the change before the release. Only one more
thing. I don't suppose you want to send me the patch to
smb.conf.5.yo to *explain* how this works in an intuitive
way, do you ? :-) :-).
Cheers & thanks,
Jeremy Allison,
Samba Team.
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