Restricting delete on a share?

[Stefan (metze) Metzmacher]

At 18:37 10.03.2003 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 18:02, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> > 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.

Andrew, read two lines above... :-)

> > you can write a vfs module that overloads the unlink function and returns
> > access denied when the unlink function is called.
>
>Just remember that doing this doesn't actually gain you anything - the
>users can still write garbage into the file, or make them zero length.
>
>So the option you are looking for is 'read only = yes' ;-)



metze
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Stefan "metze" Metzmacher <metze at metzemix.de>