[Samba] suggestions about file ownership in multi-user "sandbox"

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 01:23:15PM -0500, Matt Mitchell wrote:

> Obviously this is a feature of filesystem semantics, so my question is 
> this: does samba provide a hook or feature, similar to the 
> preexec/postexec script, except for a file write?  I am willing to deal 
> with performance implications, of course.  An alternative would be an 
> unlink-and-create-before-write approach when updating a file, though 
> that would require samba to do some gymnastics.  I'm not aware of any 
> such feature.

Yes, you can write a Samba vfs module that only hooks write and does
what you want.

Jeremy.