samba --help

[Christian Barth]

> Hi Ashok,
> That's a problem.  the '0740' will prevent the users from
> editing each other's files, but the ability to DELETE files
> from a directory is governed not by the FILE permissions, but 
> the DIRECTORY permissions.  So if a user can CREATE a file in
> a directory, he can also DELETE a file in that same directory,
> regardless of the ownership of the file itself.
> 
> Anybody out there on the list got an idea for getting around this?
Set the stick bit on the directory (chmod +t directory). May be (I'm 
not sure) have a look at the "delete read only" parameter of 
smb.conf. Or use acl's (?).

Christian

> 
> Don
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ashok Kumar [mailto:ldapsk at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 8:24 AM
> To: MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1)
> Subject: RE: samba --help
> 
> 
> Hi Don,
> 
> Thank you very much. it worked.
> I want one more help. In a shared directory which will
> be accessed by two users. I want the user1 created
> files should be readable by user2, but user2  should
> not be able to delete or modify user1's files or
> directory.
> Similary for user1 should be able to read only user2
> files or directory but not modify or delete user2
> files or directory.
> 
> I have made the fillowing changes in smb.conf
> But user2 can delete user1 files and user1 can delete
> user2 files.
> 
> [common]
> 
>  comment = shared Directory
>  path = /home/public
>  writable = yes
>  public = no
>  valid users = ashok raju
>  create mask = 0740
> 
> Public directory has 777 permission 
> 
> drwxrwxrwx    3 root root  4096 Oct 10 12:11 public
> 
> what changes have to be  made to have this functional.
> Please do help.
> 
> Regards
> -Ashok
> 
>  
> 
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