locking files, and directory permissions.

[Gerald Carter]

On Thu, 3 May 2001, MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1) wrote:

> Hi Marc,
> Don't know about your locking issue, but afraid you're stuck on the root
> thing;  basically if samba sees that you are on the admin users list, your
> UID is gonna be set to 0, like it or not.  force user won't do you any good
> (unless you are forcing a user who is NOT on the admin list), as the user
> you are forcing to is STILL on the admin list, and your uid is STILL gonna
> be 0.  This hearkens back to the old unix adage - ya don't log on as root
> unless ya need to do root stuff.  IE,
> have a normal logon where you do your work, and an admin users logon that
> you use for admin stuff.

Well you could always do the dirty hack of using 'chown -R <user> <path>'
as a root postexec.  (i should get flamed for that one) :-)






Cheers, jerry
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