[Samba]Permission issue

[Jeremy Allison]

On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 12:20:42AM +0200, TSZ wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am beginner of Samba, but today I have made update of Samba to RC3. I 
> have two users:root and tomek. tomek is in linux groups: smbadmins, 
> smbusers and nothing more. There is a folder for everyone and file made 
> by the root in it:
> 
> total 4 -rw-------  1 root root 1195 Jul  1 00:11 group.txt
> 
> User tomek is not able to read the file, but is able to delete it, why? 
> I have no entries in group map.

Because in UNIX, permission to delete a file is granted by the
permissions on the directory containing it, not on the file
itself.

Jeremy.