[Samba] Only one user for a file

[Thomas, Daniel J.]

Actually, in my case the users is going to FTP in to the machine to upload
or download web content.  This is actually for a sort of club where there
are officers who should have the ability to create and edit web content,
club members who need to read certain member only content, and then certain
other content should be open to read by any user.  Maybe I can do this by
creating a bunch of groups and assigning groups to certain folders?  I'm not
familiar with ACL's but I'll look into it.
Thanks,
-Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Barth [mailto:barth at cck.uni-kl.de]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 11:03 AM
To: 'Squires,Ron'; samba at lists.samba.org; Thomas, Daniel J.
Subject: RE: [Samba] Only one user for a file


I'm not sure what you mean wit "restrict the use to one user". Do you 
mean if one user runs the application and an other one wants to start 
it simultaniously, he gets a permission denied? In this case I would 
try "locking = no" and a few other parameters for the share in 
smb.conf. Or do you mean only a certain user can run the application 
independend from what the other do? Than you may have to tune file 
and directory permissions. Does this application need to write to its 
files (ini's, locking, ...)


> This I think is a limitation of Unix.  In NT we can assign any number of
> users and groups with varied rights to any group of files or folders.  In
> UNIX you can only assign one user and one group to a set of files so
either
> one person has control of the file, everyone in a group has control of the
> file, or the world has control of the file.  I wish there was a better way
> to do this because I can think of special cases where you need to do more
> specific things for instance:
> I have a Linux web server.  One of the directories I would like to have
> multiple users given Read/write control to so they can edit the web
content.
> I'd like some of the directories to be read only to certain users and
others
> to be read to everyone.  I can't really think of an efficient way to do
this
> with the UNIX OS, but it would be very simple under NT.
With Unix users and groups you can be very tricky, and if you do not 
maind to set up a couple of groups everything commonly needed can be 
done. Or, a last in my experience: It can be done more than the 
normal user wants to use actively (to my option file permissions of 
data is user stuff not admin work). If you realy run out of 
possiblities you can set up ACL'a on Unix to.

Christian



> -Dan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Squires,Ron [mailto:squiresr at odem-edroy.k12.tx.us]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 10:04 AM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] Only one user for a file
> 
> 
> I have set up samba to be recognized on my NT/2K domain network and it
does
> a great job with single user files.  I have attempted to use the file
system
> to hold network programs and have run into this problem.   Some programs
> restrict the use of the program to one user;however, when installed on a
2K
> or NT server there is unlimited access.  
> 
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