How to allow to a user of a group to change writeable bit of a fi

[Robert Dahlem]

Eric,

On Thu, 4 Mar 1999 20:40:13 +1100, EFT.Eric Devolder wrote:

>In fact the application I use must be able to change Read-Only flag on a
>file. If two people are part of one group, they are able to modify / change
>the files belonging to their permissions.

>In a general way, one should be able to change the Read-Only flag if one are
>part of the same group of the users's read-only file. I know samba cannot
>override Unix security scheme, but perhaps with force user and force group ?
>(perform a chown on the file!)

Indeed this is the solution to _your_ specific problem. Chown all the files to 
"someuser", then add "force user = someuser" to the share definition. That's how 
we do it all the time ...

Hasta la vista,
               Robert

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