Clarification on smb.conf man-page needed (doc-bug?)

[Jeremy Allison]

On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 08:20:20PM +0000, Anders Karlsson wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 12:05 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 07:29:10PM +0000, Anders Karlsson wrote:
> > > However, the observed behaviour, when mounting the share with
> > > 'mount.cifs //localhost/share /mnt/test -o setuids,user=cifs' and user
> > > cifs is set as admin user for the share is as follows;
> > >  * the bits set in the 'security mask' become bits you can not change
> > > with chmod.
> > >  * bits not set in 'create mask' become bits you can not change with
> > > chmod
> > 
> > That's a bug. I've fixed it in SVN and it'll be fixed
> > in the next stable release.
> 
> Many thanks for that. Would it be possible to see a patch for that
> change, or is it a convoluted change?

It's a little convoluted as this code has
been refactored in the current SVN tree,
but I sent it to Red Hat for a project
they're working on.

It's svn check-in number : r21097 in
the SAMBA_3_0 tree. You'll have to port
it to whatever version of the server
you're using.

Jeremy.