[Samba] Inherit permissions question (Please help)

[David Wilson]

Any other ideas ?
Pehaps this could be added as a feature to Samba ?


Kindest regards
David Wilson
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Wilson" <dave at dcdata.co.za>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>; "Gerald (Jerry) Carter" <jerry at samba.org>; 
"Thomas Reiss" <thomas at mypoint.franken.de>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Inherit permissions question (Please help)


> Hi Thomas,
>
> Thank you for your reply and the information.
> Will the "s"-Bit cause all new files that are written by a "Domain Admin" 
> to the user1/ folder to be owned by "user1" ?
>
> My problem is that "Domain Admins" can write to users' folders in the 
> [userprofile] share but then the respective user who owns the folder can't 
> access the new data in it.
> The "inherit permisions" would solve my problem except that it does not 
> allow user/group ownership to be passed down onto files.
> Any ideas ? :)
>
> Thank you for your help so far.
>
> Kindest regards
> David Wilson
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Thomas Reiss" <thomas at mypoint.franken.de>
> To: <samba at lists.samba.org>; "Gerald (Jerry) Carter" <jerry at samba.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 9:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Inherit permissions question (Please help)
>
>
>> Hallo David Wilson,
>>
>>> If the administrator(root) had to write a file (test.txt) to the user1
>>> folder and I had "inherit permissions" turned on, then file would be
>>> written as:
>>> rwx------ 16 root     Domain Admins     0 2005-01-21  07:07     test.txt
>>> Unfortunately I need "user1" to own the file, just like it's parent
>>> directory, which is as follows:
>>> drwx----- 16 user1     users     4096 2005-01-21       user1/
>>
>> I thing it makes Life easyer when you change the Group Owner to "Domain
>> Admins" and set the "s"-Bit and the Permissions to 770 on the userx/ 
>> Directorys.
>> So every "Domain Admin" can write files on the directorys.
>>
>> Try this (or do this on a higher Directory Level):
>>
>> drwxrws-- 16 user1     Domain Admins     4096 2005-01-21       user1/
>>
>> Hope it helps.
>> Greetings
>> Thomas
>>
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