[Samba] Changing ACLs as administrator

Konkol, Josh JKonkol at guidemail.com
Tue Jul 30 08:32:02 GMT 2002


I've replied to these question several times in this list.  

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I have this working successfuly.

Josh


> -----Original Message-----
> From: sspitzner at planalytics.com [mailto:sspitzner at planalytics.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 10:13 AM
> To: Eddie Lania
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Changing ACLs as administrator
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Eddie,
> 
> I am having the exact same problem. I cannot change ACL's 
> either from the
> administrator login or the user login. If anyone can give a 
> clue as to what is
> going on, I would appreciate it. I am running 2.2.5 with the 
> acl code in the
> kernel and compiled with acl.
> 
> Thank you
> Sam
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "Eddie Lania" <e.lania at elton.nl> on 07/30/2002 09:19:39 AM
> 
> 
> 
> 
> To:   samba at lists.samba.org
> cc:    (bcc: Samuel K Spitzner/Planalytics)
> 
> Subject:  [Samba] Changing ACLs as administrator
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hello all.
> 
> Has somebody found a solution yet?
> I can't figure it out.
> I am beginning to wonder if it might be a bug in samba?
> This is what I have now:
> 
> [netlogon]
>         comment = Network Logon Service
>         path = /home/netlogon
>         read only = Yes
>         guest ok = Yes
>         write list = @"Administrators"
>         force group = "+Administrators"
>         inherit acls = Yes
>         inherit permissions = Yes
> 
> [homes]
>         path = /home/users/%U
>         read only = No
>         browseable = No
>         inherit acls = Yes
>         inherit permissions = Yes
> 
> [users]
>         comment = Users share
>         path = /home/users
>         read only = No
>         force group = "+Administrators"
>         inherit acls = Yes
>         inherit permissions = Yes
> 
> [profiles]
>         comment = User profiles share
>         path = /home/profiles
>         read only = No
>         force group = "+Administrators"
>         inherit acls = Yes
>         inherit permissions = Yes
>         csc policy = disable
> -----
> 
> All user directories and files in [users] and [profiles] are 
> owned by the
> "user", their group has been set to Administrators and user and group
> permissions are set to rwx for directories and rw for files.
> 
> The world permissions have been set to none because I want 
> only the "user"
> or the Adminstrator equiv to be able to access the directories in the
> [users] or the [profiles] share.
> 
> When I check the acls and permission from a logged-in windows 
> XP client
> verything looks really good.
> No errors.
> 
> So far so good......but then:
> 
> When a user creates a new file or directory, it should 
> inherit it's acl and
> permissions from the parent directory, this doesn't work, 
> currently the
> owner and group get set to the user itself.
> 
> If an Administrator equiv creates a new file or directory, I 
> would like it
> to be set to a default acl where the group should be at least
> "Administrators" and, if needed, I would like to change the 
> owner later.
> With the "force group" parameter set to "+Administrators" 
> this works almost
> ok, the groups get set well but I get a "permission denied" 
> when I try to
> change the owner of the directory.
> 
> In order to be able to succeed in changing the ownership:
> I also have been playing with the "username map" file but 
> when I add a line
> there like:
> root = @"Administrators"
> then the result is that the Administrator equiv is being 
> logged in as root
> at login time, and still isn't able to change the ownership 
> of an file or
> directory.
> 
> I also tried the "admin users = @"Administrators" in the 
> service section but
> this doesn't work either.
> 
> So, I am out of options now.
> 
> I hope that some other list member can give me the right solution.
> Or maybe one of the members of the samba team?
> 
> Thank you for any reply.
> 
> Eddie.
> 
> 
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