[Samba] Group write does not allow delete or rename?

[Paul Szabo]

Dear Rowland,

Thanks for the hint, it sounds like I should get rid of the line
"acl_xattr:ignore system acls = yes" in smb.conf. I think I read
that there was a change in its meaning, around version 4.5 or so.
Thanks, this gives me something to experiment with.

Could you please tell me what I would "lose" if I also dropped the
"vfs objects = acl_xattr" line? I do not remember why I have it there.

Thanks, Paul


On 15/5/24 17:50, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> On Wed, 15 May 2024 17:27:53 +1000
> Paul Szabo via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 
>> Dear Samba list,
>>
>> I have an issue with what seems to be group permissions, when using a
>> stand-alone Samba file server.
>>
>> I have a directory where files are meant to be writable to a group of
>> users. The permissions on Linux are:
>>
>>   root# ls -ld /users/misc/teaching /users/misc/teaching/*
>>   drwxrws--- 2 teaching csos 4096 May 15 08:47 /users/misc/teaching
>>   -rw-rw---- 1 teaching csos   17 May 15 08:23
>> /users/misc/teaching/test.txt
>>
> 
> It doesn't matter what you have set there, those permissions will be
> ignored by Samba because you also have 'acl_xattr:ignore system acls =
> yes' set. Setting that does exactly what it says on the tin, Samba will
> ignore the system permissions.
> 
> Rowland


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