[Samba] ACL and delete files

Doug VanLeuven roamdad at sonic.net
Fri Apr 15 16:47:17 GMT 2005


Peter Kruse wrote:

> John H Terpstra wrote:
>
>> Please file this as a bug report on https://bugzilla.samba.org if you 
>> want this to be dealt with. All Samba bug related issues are dealt 
>> with via bugzilla.
>>
>
> The closed bug #2521 looks like related to this, and I was thinking to
> reopen it if I can.
>
>     Ptr
>
>> - John T.
>>
>> On Friday 15 April 2005 08:59, Peter Kruse wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Here's a way to force the error.  Please try it.
>>> To summarize:  Create a file with permission bits set to 470, owned by
>>> root.  With setfacl give write permission to a group.  Users in that
>>> group will not be able to modify the file when accessing the share
>>> from a windows client.  This is true for smbclient as well.
>>> Modifying the file under Linux works as expected.
>>
Check out the "delete readonly" option in smb.conf.
Since the owner does not have write permission it shows as read only.
You'll get what you want by setting "delete readonly = yes" on the share.

Regards, Doug



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