Who should be the owner of newly created files when the creator is in the local Administrators group

Richard Sharpe realrichardsharpe at gmail.com
Mon Apr 30 15:26:48 MDT 2012


On 4/30/12, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 02:18:16PM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>> > No, we don't do that. I'm in the process of making this work
>> > for SeBackup/SeRestore opens, but it's tricky...
>>
>> I currently have a patch for the obvious path based on my previous
>> suggestion ... but I have likely forgotten something. I will send it
>> out for comment.
>
> The hard part is having to chdir() into the parent directory
> first, check it's the right place - and then do the operation
> (and check you didn't get a smylink race). I've got the plumbing
> in place (via the struct privilege_paths code) but haven't
> done the open() codepaths yet.

Heh, this is the bit I forgot about :-(

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Regards,
Richard Sharpe
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