[Samba] patch request - inherit owner

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Nov 21 22:17:20 GMT 2005


On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 17:36 +0100, initiators at free.fr wrote:
> Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> > initiators at free.fr wrote:
> > 
> > | so a patch to add an "inherit owner group" option
> > | would be very useful.
> > 
> > Unix file systems already support this with the group ID bit.
> > Just "chmod g+s dirname".
> 
> Ok it's working.
> 
> I didn't knew I could have a s without a x, so I was worried about the
> security as some users have access to a shell on the Samba server.
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'x' has different meaning when it comes to a directory. It indicates
whether a user of that type can 'descend' into the directory.

Craig


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