[Samba] How to give one user write permissions to HOME shares

[John H Terpstra]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Jerome Walter wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 10:15:05AM -0400, Dan Didier wrote:
> > mmurrock can browse, but he can't write.  Is there an easy way to add write
> > access for the mmurrock user?
> >
> > here is my homes share:
> >
> > [homes]
> >    comment = Home Directories
> >    browseable = no
> >    writable = yes
> >    valid users = %S, mmurrock
> >    create mode = 0664
> >    directory mode = 0775
>
> What are the physical rights of your mmurrock user (i mean, unix one) ?
> To get this working, i have a samba with acl enabled (on an XFS filesystem).
> Are ACLs enabled on your system ?

Why do you ask this? Do you believe that Posix ACLs is the only or best
way to do this? If so, what benefits do you believe that ACLs confer?

- John T.
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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org