[Samba] 'inherit owner' doesn't play nice with 'force directory mode'

Charles Marcus CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Wed Aug 19 04:22:31 MDT 2009


On 8/18/2009, jw (jwdevel at gmail.com) wrote:
>> directory mask = 0775
>>
>> The reason you're not getting 775 perms on the new directory
>> is that the default directory mask is 0755, which masks out
>> the write permission for the group.
>>
>> Just setting inherit owner, and directory mask = 0775
>> should be enough.

> I gave this a shot, but it's still not quite doing what I would expect.
> I have:
> 
>    inherit owner = yes
>    directory mask = 7775

? He said 0775, not 7775

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Best regards,

Charles


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