SEC_FILE_APPEND_DATA vs SEC_FILE_WRITE_DATA ???

[Zack Kirsch]

Perhaps SEC_FILE_APPEND_DATA gives a user the right to grow the size of
the file, where SEC_FILE_WRITE_DATA does not?

Zack

> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-technical-bounces+zkirsch=isilon.com at lists.samba.org
> [mailto:samba-technical-bounces+zkirsch=isilon.com at lists.samba.org] On
> Behalf Of Volker Lendecke
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 11:41 AM
> To: Jeremy Allison
> Cc: samba-technical at samba.org
> Subject: Re: SEC_FILE_APPEND_DATA vs SEC_FILE_WRITE_DATA ???
> 
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:18:17AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > > Does someone know what the difference between the two access flags
> > > APPEND_DATA and WRITE_DATA for files means? I tried giving a user
> > > just APPEND_DATA but not WRITE_DATA rights on a 10-byte file, but
I
> > > can perfectly write the first byte.
> > > Sniffs available upon request.
> >
> > Is this against Windows ?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Volker