[Samba] patch request - inherit owner

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 09:33 +0100, initiators at free.fr wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> > ----
> > 'x' has different meaning when it comes to a directory. It indicates
> > whether a user of that type can 'descend' into the directory.
> > 
> > Craig
> > 
> > 
> 
> I know this, but I am moving data from a Windows server to Samba i.e. I
> have to copy files preserving the creation times and then set up the
> access rights.
> And as I tought that s goes with x, and there is not way (well, as least
> from what I know) to recursievly set the s just to directories (as with
> the X) I had no solution.
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chmod -R g+s /path/to/directory # recursively set guid bit
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> Well, seting up the s to the base dir before replicating data should
> have worked, but I just didn't think enough.
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We all have that problem.

Craig


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