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

[Dragan Krnic]

Hi Jeremy,

I'll look up "dosmode.c" and shall try to define a patch proposal 
for either "dos filemode" or "overrule readonly dirs".

But how does your reply explain the effect of "inherit permissions"?

If you recall, with inheritance enabled regular files can have A, H 
and R flag set and cleared whereas disabling inheritance disables A 
and H flags for them leaving only R-flag manipulable.

Any clue?

I'm flabbergasted at the quantity of queries you and your 
colleagues manage to process on a daily basis. My present thread is 
actually a second attempt at drawing your attention to the fact 
that compliance with M$ quirks and kinks is not something to be 
ashamed of but rather reason to be proud. The abidance by the POSIX 
rules should not stand in the way of the usefulness of such a nice
suite as Samba. Samba penetration is at stake. My latest 
installation runs like a scream, reduces network traffic and WINS 
queries to adjacent domains but it gets bad-mouthed for the failure 
to replicate write-protected directory properly across logins, as I 
reported in an ignored mail just a day earlier. Not a big deal, but 
sufficient to stall the plans to extend the domain of Samba 
influence to something like 50-60 thousand other clients in this 
enterprise.

Of course, clueless admins are even greater source of frustration. 
So can you skim that earlier post of mine headed '"Special" link 
folders - Readonly attrib', Tue Nov 26 20:53:28 2002, and compose 
a terse flame bait?

Dragan

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Dragan Krnic [mailto:dkrnic at lycos.com] 
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 27. November 2002 23:21
An: jra at dp.samba.org
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org; dkrnic at t-online.de
Betreff: Re: [Samba] "attrib +R myowndir" fails to write-protect my own
dir


 
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On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:48:21  
 jra wrote:
>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.
>
Yeah, it was deprecated and abolished somewhere between 2.0.7 and 
2.2.7, donno exactly. Resurrect it, please.


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