[Samba] "attrib +R myowndir" fails to write-protect my own dir

[jra at dp.samba.org]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:33:11PM +0100, Dragan Krnic wrote:
> I'm so glad there are kind souls at this time of night. Wait, it might
> be day at your place. Good day!

Yep, it's 1:30 in the afternoon here in California :-).

> I don't see a contradiction in setting Readonly flag on one's own
> directories and then creating files in them anyways. It's very much 
> like any overruling root privilege. It's just a flag, Jeremy, it's 
> not our saviour's gospel. Bill knows we don't march over dead bodies 
> and he's taking unfair advantage of it.
> 
> I propose a new smb.conf feature for 3.0:
> 
>    [homes & especially profiles]
>       overrule readonly dirs = Yes/No
> 
> Default is "No", but in exceptional cases, like on almost every samba
> server, it may be enabled to write into one's own write-protected directories, salvation be damned.

The flag "dos filemode" is usually used for this purpose, I'll
investigate using it.

Thanks,

	Jeremy.