[Samba] patch request - inherit owner

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 06:00 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> 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.
> ---
> chmod -R g+s /path/to/directory # recursively set guid bit
> ---

Watch out, that will set the setgid bit on any files in that directory.

Where 'foo' is the directory, try:

find foo -type d | xargs chmod g+s

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Samba Developer, SuSE Labs, Novell Inc.        http://suse.de
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net
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