[Samba] folder/users privileges

John Du jjohndu at gmail.com
Tue Aug 4 15:06:12 MDT 2009


Surendil wrote:
> You were right, i can do it easily with setfacl.
> Thanks for solving my problem.
>
> i have another thing going on now.
> everytime i try to setfacl a user to a folder it gives me an error.
>
> root at s-f141-lx01:/# setfacl -b -k -R prueba/
> root at s-f141-lx01:/# setfacl -R -m u:ale:rw prueba/
> setfacl: prueba/: Operation not supported
>
>   
The file system is not mounted with ACL enabled?

> any idea of why this is happening???
>
> Againg thanks for your help.
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Robert LeBlanc <robert at leblancnet.us> wrote:
>
>   
>> I've found that you can not change the ugo permissions that are default on
>> Linux systems. You have to use extended ACLs and with Windows you can manage
>> those to your heart's content. Typically, what we do is set permissions that
>> will not ever be changed using the Linux ugo permissions, and then more
>> detailed ones we use extended ACLs. I have not found a way to manage the
>> Linux ugo permissions from Windows.
>>
>> Robert LeBlanc
>> Life Sciences & Undergraduate Education Computer Support
>> Brigham Young University
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Surendil <aleelf at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I've tried to set ACLs but have the same results as before, definitly i'm
>>> doing something wrong.
>>> I just thought i could manage privileges like Windows 2003 file server.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Surendil <aleelf at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I've tried to set ACLs but have the same results as before, definitly
>>>>         
>>> i'm
>>>       
>>>> doing something wrong.
>>>> I just thought i could manage privileges like Windows 2003 file server.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Robert LeBlanc <robert at leblancnet.us
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Samba respect file system ACLs. We use them all the time. We have our
>>>>> share declarations wide open (relatively speaking) and control all the
>>>>>           
>>> rest
>>>       
>>>>> of the permissions by ACLs. We use XFS and usually mount the file
>>>>>           
>>> system to
>>>       
>>>>> respect gid bit setting on folders to give a Windows like environment
>>>>>           
>>> (we
>>>       
>>>>> also set the umask appropriately in smb.conf)
>>>>>
>>>>> Robert LeBlanc
>>>>> Life Sciences & Undergraduate Education Computer Support
>>>>> Brigham Young University
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Surendil <aleelf at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> The users ale and jvillar are windows XP users trying to get into
>>>>>>             
>>> samba
>>>       
>>>>>> shared folder
>>>>>> will acl work?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Eero Volotinen <
>>>>>>             
>>> eero.volotinen at iki.fi
>>>       
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>> I got a folder named "BACKUP"
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>>> users ale and jvillar can read/write this folder
>>>>>>>> inside "BACKUP" is another folder named "MAIL BACKUP"
>>>>>>>> i want user ale to read/write this folder and user jvillar only
>>>>>>>>                 
>>> read.
>>>       
>>>>>>>> Even though i tried everything i could think of nothing worked out
>>>>>>>>                 
>>> the
>>>       
>>>>>> way
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>>> i
>>>>>>>> wanted too.
>>>>>>>> Did anyone solved this?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>>>> Use acl on filesystem ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Eero
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Alejandro Debussy
>>>>>> Konexion Urbana
>>>>>> Tel: 02322-426468
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>>>>>>             
>>>>>           
>>>> --
>>>> Alejandro Debussy
>>>> Konexion Urbana
>>>> Tel: 02322-426468
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>
>>> --
>>> Alejandro Debussy
>>> Konexion Urbana
>>> Tel: 02322-426468
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>>     
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