[Samba] Re: [Possible BUG] Samba v3.0.20b and permissions POSIX/Samba

[Michael Gasch]

hi&big thx jerry,

two questions remain:

1) i'm using "store dos attributes" so (a)/(b) do not apply for me?
2) 'map read only = yes' should give you 3.0.14a behavior.
-> according to the docs wouldn't "map read only = Permissions or No" 
give the <3.0.20 behaviour?

i'll play around with 3.0.21pre

thx so far

> In the absence of 'store dos attributes = yes' and the ability
> to represent DOS attribute bits separately from permission bits,
> we have two choices.
> 
> (a) May the read only DOS attrib bit to the inverse of the
> user write bit (this is what we did prior to the 3.0.20 series),
> or
> 
> (b) represent the read only attribute based on whether the
> user can actually write to the file.
> 
> If the 'R' DOS attribute is set, Windows will not allow you
> to delete the file IIRC which is probably what you are hitting.
> In 3.0.21pre1 'map read only = yes' should give you 3.0.14a behavior.
> 
> The problem in the current 3.0.20 behavior (which might be
> considered a bug) is that we do not take the parent directory
> permissions into account when determining whether the user
> has write  access or not to a given file.  And hence this is
> another argument to stay away from user space access checks.
> But we have no choice with the changes in WinXP sp2 and file
> deletion.
> 
> Does this help explain the behavior?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> cheers, jerry
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