[Samba] Re: Write Once Read Many share with samba

Mike Wilkinson mwilkinson at bigbangdigitalstudios.com
Wed May 21 01:23:59 GMT 2008


Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi
>
> 2008/5/20 Brian May <brian at vpac.org>:
>   
>> I don't think it is possible with Unix or Samba permissions to:
>>
>> * allow file writes but deny file appends (and other modifications?).
>> * allow creating files but deny creating folders.
>>
>> which appears to be what you have done under windows.
>>     
>
> This was my thoughts.
> Samba is running on a FreeBSD 6.3 AMD64 server, filesystem is UFS.
>
> I don't know of any ACL tools...
>
>   
How about a VFS module that overrides just open, rmdir, rename and 
unlink? unlink/rmdir/rename becomes a no-op, open for write fails if the 
file exists?


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