[Samba] user in two groups - acl problem

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 Jurica.Motusic at megatrend.com wrote:

> I have samba, winbind, w2k domain. Everything works fine BUT
> 
> User "test" is member of group "ALL" and group "MARKETING"
> Group ALL have all permission on folder COMPANY, and  group MARKETING
> doesn't have any access (deny) .
> 
> User test still can access folder COMPANY.
> 
> If I explicitly deny user test to access that folder then it's OK.
> 
> Why? Is it possible to deny access to folder COMPANY to group MARKETING
> by using groups.


under the posix acl model, the user gets the sum of the group permissions.
an explicitly named user entry takes preference though so if you 
exlicitly assign the user --- permissions, then he/she will get just that.




cheers, jerry
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