[Samba] Group permissions not working on 3.0.8

Rodrigo Severo rodrigo.lists at fabricadeideias.com
Sat Dec 11 17:10:40 GMT 2004


Hi,


I have just tried Samba 3.0.9 and got the same results. Sadly.

What should I do now?


Rodrigo Severo


Rodrigo Severo wrote:

> I believe group permissions are not working well on Samba 3.0.8.
>
> I have two different problems that seems to be group permission related:
>
> 1. I have the following file:
>
> -r--rw----  1 apache_user developers_group 13285 Dec  9 12:53 index.html
>
> I am a member of developers_group (not my primary group) and I can't 
> edit this file. If I give apache_user (the file's owner) the write 
> right then I can edit the file. Why?
>
> This only happens when I access the file through Samba, on the machine 
> itself these rights work as I expect, i.e., no need of write right to 
> the owner.
>
> 2. I have the following directory:
>
> dr-xrws---  1 apache_user developers_group     0 Mar 18  2004 userimages/
>
> Again I, as a member of developres_group, should be able to create a 
> new file. But I can't: permission denied. Again I ask why?
>
> I saw some messages about group permission related problems down in 
> Samba 3.0.2. Could these issues be related to this same problem?
>
> BTW I using ldap based authentication.
>
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