basic question on permissions for [profiles]

[Gerald Carter]

Phil Steinke wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, KFR wrote:
> 
> > What should i chown /usr/local/samba/lib/profiles  to ?
> >
> > Just curious, as i am a bit confused about unix permissions.
> 
> I used 'chmod 777 profiles', 

I would recommend 'chmod 1777' which sets the sticky bit.  
An alternative is to set it 755 and owned by root and use 
a root presexec script to create the profile directory for 
each user the first time they connect and give the ownership.



j-
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                            Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter	
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