[Samba] Force User -

Yura Pismerov ypismerov at tucows.com
Tue Nov 5 01:24:00 GMT 2002


	You will need ACL support.

info wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I am using Samba shares as a way for my users to publish files from their
> Windows XP PC's to my Apache Web Server on Red Hat Linux.
> 
> The username I use for Apache is apache and it has full read,write and
> execute access on all the files within my webserver root directory.  In the
> Samba Shares I use force user = apache so this means that any files created
> using the share actually get apache as the owner.  However, this actually
> gives the person who connects using the samba share the power of the user
> apache which means they can change anything.  I dont want this.  I just want
> to set it so that the owner of any files created by using the samba share is
> set as apache.  I do not want people to have the power of apache!  Is this
> possible?
> 
> Or does anyone know a better way of publishing to the apache webserver?
> PLease help, thanks
> 
> Mr. Gerard O'Reilly
> Intranet Manager
> Siam Stars Ltd/ Thai-Belgium Industrial Co. Ltd
> 21/6 Moo 3, Soi Kayha Bangbua,
> Viphavadee Rangsit Road,
> 60 Talad Bangkhen,
> Laksi Bangkok 10210
> Tel:  02-561-4649 or 02-940-8750
> Fax: (66-2) 5611486



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