[Samba] Precedence of access parameters

Michael Gasch gasch at eva.mpg.de
Thu Jul 6 08:01:54 GMT 2006


i think you should read man smb.conf which will definitely give you the 
answer.

greez

Alan Gibson wrote:
> hello all,
> 
> im trying to figure out the precedence of security parameters in
> smb.conf. i know that settings in specific shares take precedence over
> settings in global; 'invalid users' takes precidence over all other
> security settings. but others im not so clear on, such as: does 'read
> only' take precedence over 'write list'? or do later entries simply
> overwrite earlier ones?
> 
> for instance, will the following allow user2 to write to [share]?
> 
> [share]
> read only = yes
> valid users = user1 user2
> read list = user1
> write list = user2
> 
> thanks in advance for any info...

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