How do you Report a bug? [Was: Moving of read only files under user security is allowed?]

Stephen Smith ischis at evergreen.com
Wed Feb 23 16:08:25 GMT 2000


The samba bug email address has been discontinued - I've tried it.  Does the
development team monitor this list.
How do I report this?

> > 
> > I don't have admin users set at all.
> > 
> > Let's start over,
> > 
> > I have the following directory structure.
> > 
> >   temp      dr-xr-xr-x
> >         testing    -r--r--r--
> >   writedir  drwxr-xr-x
> > 
> > Under unix (logged in as the user):
> >    if I do "mv temp writedir"  I get
> > 
> >    mv: cannot unlik `temp/testing': Permission denied
> >    mv: cannot remove directory `temp': Directory not empty
> >    mv: cannot remove `temp': Directory not empty
> > 
> >    my new directory structure is
> > 
> >    temp      dr-xr-xr-x
> >         testing    -r--r--r--
> >    writedir  drwxr-xr-x
> >         temp      dr-xr-xr-x
> >              testing    -r--r--r--
> > 
> > Under samba (security = user) in my home share.  If I drag temp to writedir I get
> > 
> > > 
> >       writedir  drwxr-xr-x
> >         temp      dr-xr-xr-x
> >            testing    -r--r--r--
> > 
> > Under samba ( security = user) in another share
> > 
> >    parentdir dr-xr-xr-x
> >       temp      dr-xr-xr-x
> >            testing    -r--r--r--
> >       writedir  drwxr-xr-x
> > 
> >    drag temp to writdir gives
> > 
> >    parentdir dr-xr-xr-x
> > >       temp      dr-xr-xr-x
> >       writedir  drwxr-xr-x
> >         temp      dr-xr-xr-x
> >            testing    -r--r--r--
> > 
> > What I want is to drag and get
> > 
> >    parentdir dr-xr-xr-x
> >       temp      dr-xr-xr-x
> >            testing    -r--r--r--
> >       writedir  drwxr-xr-x
> >         temp      dr-xr-xr-x
> >            testing    -r--r--r--
> > 
> 
> Ok, now I've understood :-)
> 
> I get the very same behavior. I think this is a bug since samba
> overrides the unix behavior.
> 
> -- 
> giulioo at pobox.com


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