[Samba] Thunderbird 24.0 for Windows seems to ignore Samba4.0.9 permissions settings

[Johan Hendriks]

Kevin Field wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a CentOS 6.4 fileserver running SerNet Samba 4.0.9 with these 
> global settings (not overridden):
>
>         read only = No
>         force create mode = 0777
>         force directory mode = 0777
>         inherit acls = yes
>         inherit owner = yes
>         inherit permissions = yes
>
> On a Windows client, I have Thunderbird 24.0 storing its profile and 
> mail on the Samba share.  The perms on everything in the share were 
> chmod -R 777'd.
>
> Then I get mail, compact a folder, whatever, and it looks like this:
>
> -rwxrwxrwx. 1 1128 513        0 Oct 18  2012 Archives
> -rwxrwxrwx. 1 1128 513     3158 Sep 25 13:20 Archives.msf
> drwxrwxrwx. 2 1128 513     4096 Sep 25 09:12 Archives.sbd
> -rwxrwx---+ 1 1128 513        0 Sep 25 13:49 Drafts
> -rwxrwx---+ 1 1128 513     2450 Sep 25 13:50 Drafts.msf
> -rwxrwx---+ 1 1128 513        0 Sep 25 13:08 Inbox
> -rwxrwx---+ 1 1128 513     2317 Sep 25 13:50 Inbox.msf
> drwxrwxrwx. 3 1128 513     4096 May 28 09:26 Inbox.sbd
> -rwxrwxrwx. 1 1128 513     1268 Apr 12  2007 Junk.msf
> -rwxrwxrwx. 1 1128 513       28 Oct  2  2012 msgFilterRules.dat
> -rwxrwxrwx  1 1128 513    13736 Sep 25 13:50 popstate.dat
> -rwxrwxrwx  1 1128 513 96061164 Sep 25 13:21 Sent
> -rwxrwx---+ 1 1128 513  2988277 Sep 25 13:21 Sent.msf
> -rwxrwxrwx. 1 1128 513        0 Mar 25  2010 Templates
> -rwxrwxrwx. 1 1128 513     2684 Sep 25 13:20 Templates.msf
> -rwxrwx---+ 1 1128 513        0 Sep 25 13:50 Trash
> -rwxrwx---+ 1 1128 513     2223 Sep 25 13:50 Trash.msf
>
> Whatever it touches is now 770.  How can that be, when the parent of 
> this folder is 777, Samba is set to inherit and force 0777?  Is this 
> Samba misbehaving, or Thunderbird?
>
> Thanks,
> Kev
It looks like the you have acl's active, hence the + after the 
permissions rwxrwx---+ .
These acls overrule the local permissions set by samba.

Not samba not thundebird is misbehaving.

regards
Johan Hendriks