[Samba] Fun with permissions

[Walter Mautner]

Am Wednesday 01 April 2009 17:06:01 schrieb Mike Woods:
> Firstly, hello! :)
>
> I've been trying to setup a share with permissions to allow users within
> the web group to be able to put files up, have full access to their own
> files but read only access to other users files, I've got what I think
> should work, but it's not (hence this post).
>
.....
> Within the web group there are users stuart and mike, i've been mounting
> common in two places (/mnt/tmp and /mnt/tmp2) under different users,
> when I create a file as stuart(bob.txt in tmp2) it gets created on the
> server with 0740 permissions and correct ownership however if I try and
> delete the file as mike (from tmp) it allows this even though mike
> should have only read permissions.
>
> Am I missing something here (possibly something painfully obvious as
> tends to be the way of things!)
>
Mike may be the owner of the directory and, as such, has permissions to delete 
files therein.
You will want to change ownership of the directory.