[Samba] Problems of groups accessing shared directory

[Dimitrios Stergiou]

On Thursday 31 October 2002 10:22 am, Qonita wrote:

> drwxrwxr-x     12 root    special    4096  Oct 29 17:15  ourdir
> How to make all files written or edited always belonging to group
> "special"? I have tried "force group = special" but it turned out anyone
> has access to the directory, eventhough they're not listed as member of
> group "special" in /etc/group.

i would suggest here a:
chmod g+s ourdir

this will allow everything created under the ourdir directory to have the same 
group ownership as ourdir

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Dimitrios Stergiou
System, Network and Security Administration Group
Intracom S.A

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