[Samba] Re: force user vs read list

[John H Terpstra]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Mark wrote:

> "John H Terpstra" <jht at samba.org> wrote in message
> news:Pine.LNX.4.50.0403112205460.9319-100000 at dp.samba.org...
>
> > This is a poor solution. The 'force user' and 'force group' directives
> > have serious side-effects and should be avoided if possible,
>
> I have a lot of shares defined with force user and I've been experimenting
> with other methods as described in the HowTo.  The following is an example:
>
> [tester]
>         comment = test share
>         path = /share/tester
>         valid users = @Engineers
>         read only = No
>         delete readonly = Yes
>
> The only problem I have not been able to overcome is that only the owner of
> a file can change it to read-only status or back to read-write status.  I
> understand that this is posix behavior, but it isn't what my users want
> (they don't really understand or care about file ownership!).  Is there a
> workaround other than "force user"?  What I'm looking for is something like
> the "delete readonly" directive except applied to the read-write status.

If you have the book "The Official Samba HOWTO and Reference Guide"
(TOSHARG) refer to section 12.6.1, 12.6.3. When referring to the
Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf see section 13.6.1 and 13.6.3.

In short:

	Set the SUID/SGID bits on the directory you have shared. Then make
	all users a member of the same group. This will solve your access
	problem.

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