Restricting delete on a share?

[Stefan (metze) Metzmacher]

At 00:04 10.03.2003 -0600, Jeremy M. Dolan wrote:
>Hi all.
>
>Management here wants to restrict users from deleting files via Samba.
>NTFS is able to restrict just delete permissions, but still allow new
>files to be created and old ones changed. But I've come to the
>conclusion this isn't possible with standard UNIX file permissions,
>and unfortunately Red Hat does not yet support ACLs on any file
>systems.
>
>In Samba's documentation I don't see any indication that a delete=no
>type option exists for shares, which surprised me. Am I missing
>something?
>
>If not, is there perhaps a compile-time directive to disallow file
>deletion?
>
>Otherwise, could someone perhaps point me to what I'd want to change
>in the source to accomplish this?

you can write a vfs module that overloads the unlink function and returns 
access denied when the unlink function is called.


metze
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