[Samba] Re: 'add/change/delete share command'(s) in smb.conf

[Igor Belyi]

Hm... Interesting idea... Since access is necessary only to smb.conf 
than probably changing share's path to
'path = /etc/samba' could be a better alternative...

But then again.. how 'add/change/delete share commands' will know that 
this particular user has access to this [config] share even if path is 
left as '/'? So, it probably won't work via those commands - user will 
need to edit smb.conf by hand while accessing it via the [config] share.

Igor

David Rankin wrote:

>This will work:
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>[config]
>        comment = Admin Share
>        path = /
>        valid users = theusername
>        force user = root
>        force group = theusergroup
>        admin users = theusername
>        writeable = Yes
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>**** W A R N I N G **** whoever 'theusername' is will have complete access
>to all files listed in or below the path directory (your entire box as shown
>above). If you can limit the path to say /home or wherever the files of
>concern are, you would be much better off.
>
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Igor Belyi" <sambauser at katehok.ac93.org>
>To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
>Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 11:17 PM
>Subject: [Samba] Re: 'add/change/delete share command'(s) in smb.conf
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>>webster at lexmark.com wrote:
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>>>Hello.
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>>>I need to allow one of my users to add & delete shares on my Samba
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>>>through the 'server manager' applet on his client .
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>>>This same user also writes some files to the same Samba server.
>>>I don't want the files that he writes to be owned/written by 'root' .
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>>>The way I understand the 'add share command' currently, this is not
>>>possible.
>>>
>>>Am I missing something?
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>>I think you are right. User can not have more than 1 identity when
>>connecting to Samba. If it's an Administrator everything will be done
>>from the root account.
>>
>>Igor
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