Security Groups in Samba4

[Rohit Rajan]

Hi Kai,

Any plans to plan to update the HOW TO?? or if possible please provide the steps on how to set groups on the directories "chown command"??


Warm regards

Rohit Rajan
Sr. System Engineer
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-----Original Message-----
From: samba-technical-bounces at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-technical-bounces at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Kai Blin
Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 2:23 PM
To: Stefan (metze) Metzmacher
Cc: Samba Technical
Subject: Re: Security Groups in Samba4

On Friday 08 January 2010 13:38:09 you wrote:
> Nadezhda Ivanova schrieb:
> > Hi Rojit,
> > Unfortunately I do not have enough experience with file permissions, 
> > I dealt with DS permissions mostly. I am not sure who the right 
> > person
to
> > help would be, perhaps Tridge?
> 
> Do we still need a unix user/group?

Nope.

> I thought the winbind task provides them.

Right. To verify, you can use wbinfo.

> Which means the unix user and the s4 user are not the same and the 
> HOWTO is outdated...

Yup. It's so far down the page that I must've missed it when I implemented the "new" idmap code back in 2007. Glad to see that the howto is frequently checked by other people, though. ;)

Cheers,
Kai

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