Samba forcing decreasing permissions (owner -> group): bug or feature?

[Rodrigo Severo]

Hi,


If I have a file:

-r--rw----  1 uuu ggg 1 Dec  9 12:53 fff

If a member of group ggg tries to edit file fff through a Samba share he 
will get read only access. Linux gives write access. FreeBSD also.

If I give write permission  to user uuu, members of group ggg start to 
have write permission even through a Samba share.

As far as I can tell, Samba uses the owner permissions as a kind of mask 
for group permissions.

If this a bug or a feature?


Rodrigo Severo





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