[Samba] Samba keeps resetting smbpasswd permissions

[Ryan Novosielski]

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Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> Volker Lendecke wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 02:19:02PM +0200, Martin v. Wittich wrote:
>>> Are there any plans to remove that code or at least make in
>>> configurable? For example, there could be options like this in the
>>> smb.conf file:
>>>
>>> smb passwd owner = root
>>> smb passwd group = freerad
>>> smb passwd mode = 640
>> I'd much rather go with a solution that keeps the existing
>> permissions on smbpasswd.
> 
> I'd much rather just leave this as a local mod for this person :-)
> And the let upstream stay the same.

He does have a point though. If you want to use this file format, it
should probably be up to you what permissions you want on it --
certainly to allow another group to read it if necessary. I myself have
not had this need, but I could see it.

Unless the preferred situation would be to use something other than
smbpasswd for something like that anyway.

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