more thoughts on Samba permissions manipulation

[Jeremy Allison]

Cole, Timothy D. wrote:

> Only thing is, now I'm having a hard time coming up with a rationale for
> even having a 'security mask'-like parameter.  It's probably related to the
> rationale behind the 'force mode' parameter, which I can't justify to myself
> right now either.  Obviously someone wanted or needed it, though; I'm kind
> of curious who uses 'force mode', and for what...

Whistle use it to ensure that the 'x' bit can *never*
be set on any files sent to their appliance fileserver
(that uses FreeBSD). It just makes it that little bit
harder to run something as an executable if the security
on the box is breached in some way.

Jeremy.

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