[Samba] Re: chown failure on a samba share

Shirish Pargaonkar shirishpargaonkar at gmail.com
Wed Mar 11 10:18:10 GMT 2009


On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Shirish Pargaonkar
<shirishpargaonkar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Volker Lendecke
> <Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 09:41:58PM -0500, Shirish Pargaonkar wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Shirish Pargaonkar
>>> <shirishpargaonkar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Is this working as designed or a samba bug?
>>> >
>>> > I am trying to chown ownership of a file in a samba share and it
>>> > results in an error.
>>> >
>>> > cifstest6:~ # smbclient //cifstest8/smb8 -U root
>>> > Enter root's password:
>>> > Domain=[CIFSTEST8] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.0-GIT-e6a5f11-devel]
>>> > smb: \> chown 65534 65534 file2
>>> > NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED chown file \file2 uid=65534, gid=65534
>>> >
>>> > The share is thus exported
>>> >
>>> > [smb88]
>>> >        path =  /tmp/cifstest88
>>> >        browseable = Yes
>>> >        read only = No
>>> >        guest ok = Yes
>>> >        writable = yes
>>> >        printable = yes
>>> >
>>> > ls -l /tmp/cifstest8/file2
>>> > -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 10 10:47 /tmp/cifstest8/file2
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > [2009/03/10 11:40:24,  3] smbd/trans2.c:6831(call_trans2setfilepathinfo)
>>> >  call_trans2setfilepathinfo(6) file2 (fnum -1) info_level=512 totdata=100
>>> > [2009/03/10 11:40:24, 10] smbd/trans2.c:6069(smb_set_file_unix_basic)
>>> >  smb_set_file_unix_basic: SMB_SET_FILE_UNIX_BASIC: name = file2 size
>>> > = 0, uid = 65534, gid = 65533, raw perms = 037777777777
>>> > [2009/03/10 11:40:24, 10] smbd/trans2.c:6129(smb_set_file_unix_basic)
>>> >  smb_set_file_unix_basic: SMB_SET_FILE_UNIX_BASIC changing owner
>>> > 65534 for path file2
>>> > [2009/03/10 11:40:24,  3] smbd/error.c:60(error_packet_set)
>>> >  error packet at smbd/trans2.c(7087) cmd=50 (SMBtrans2) NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
>>
>> Just tried with current master: Works fine for me. Can you
>> post an strace of smbd trying to do this?
>>
>> Volker
>>
>
> Volker,
>
> Thanks.  Here is the info.
>
> This is how I started collecting strace info
>
> strace -f /etc/init.d/smb start
>
> #SMBD_BIN="/usr/sbin/smbd"
> SMBD_BIN="/usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd"
> SMB_CONF="/etc/samba/smb.conf"
> PID_FILE="/var/run/samba/smbd.pid"
>
>
> # /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd -V
> Version 3.4.0-GIT-e6a5f11-devel
>
>
>  ps -eaf | grep smb
> root      8604     1  0 04:41 ?        00:00:00
> /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd -D -s /etc/samba/smb.conf
> root      8605  8604  0 04:41 ?        00:00:00
> /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd -D -s /etc/samba/smb.conf
> root      8609  8604  0 04:41 ?        00:00:00
> /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd -D -s /etc/samba/smb.conf
> root      8658  8604  0 04:46 ?        00:00:00
> /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd -D -s /etc/samba/smb.conf
>
>
> smbclient //cifstest8/smb8 -U root
> Enter root's password:
> Domain=[CIFSTEST8] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.0-GIT-e6a5f11-devel]
> smb: \> chown 65534 65534 file2
> NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED chown file \file2 uid=65534, gid=65534
>
>
>                                                .....................
>                                                .....................
> [pid  8730] write(21, "  change_to_user uid=(0,65534) g"..., 45) = 45
> [pid  8730] stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
> st_size=3543, ...}) = 0
> [pid  8730] geteuid()                   = 65534
> [pid  8730] write(21, "[2009/03/11 04:53:12,  4] smbd/v"..., 52) = 52
> [pid  8730] geteuid()                   = 65534
> [pid  8730] write(21, "  vfs_ChDir to /tmp/cifstest8\n", 30) = 30
> [pid  8730] chdir("/tmp/cifstest8")     = 0
> [pid  8730] stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
> st_size=3543, ...}) = 0
> [pid  8730] geteuid()                   = 65534
> [pid  8730] write(21, "[2009/03/11 04:53:12,  5] smbd/f"..., 60) = 60
> [pid  8730] geteuid()                   = 65534
> [pid  8730] write(21, "  unix_convert called on file \"f"..., 38) = 38
> [pid  8730] stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
> st_size=3543, ...}) = 0
> [pid  8730] geteuid()                   = 65534
> [pid  8730] write(21, "[2009/03/11 04:53:12, 10] smbd/s"..., 66) = 66
> [pid  8730] geteuid()                   = 65534
> [pid  8730] write(21, "  stat_cache_lookup: lookup fail"..., 52) = 52
> [pid  8730] stat("file2", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0777, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
> [pid  8730] stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
> st_size=3543, ...}) = 0
> [pid  8730] geteuid()                   = 65534
> [pid  8730] write(21, "[2009/03/11 04:53:12,  5] smbd/s"..., 63) = 63
> [pid  8730] geteuid()                   = 65534
> [pid  8730] write(21, "  stat_cache_add: Added entry (7"..., 67) = 67
> [pid  8730] stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
> st_size=3543, ...}) = 0
> [pid  8730] geteuid()                   = 65534
> [pid  8730] write(21, "[2009/03/11 04:53:12,  5] smbd/f"..., 60) = 60
> [pid  8730] geteuid()                   = 65534
> [pid  8730] write(21, "  conversion finished file2 -> f"..., 37) = 37
> [pid  8730] lstat("file2", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0777, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
> [pid  8730] stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
> st_size=3543, ...}) = 0
> [pid  8730] geteuid()                   = 65534
> [pid  8730] write(21, "[2009/03/11 04:53:12,  3] smbd/t"..., 73) = 73
> [pid  8730] geteuid()                   = 65534
> [pid  8730] write(21, "  call_trans2setfilepathinfo(6) "..., 75) = 75
> [pid  8730] stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
> st_size=3543, ...}) = 0
> [pid  8730] geteuid()                   = 65534
> [pid  8730] write(21, "[2009/03/11 04:53:12, 10] smbd/t"..., 70) = 70
> [pid  8730] geteuid()                   = 65534
> [pid  8730] write(21, "  smb_set_file_unix_basic: SMB_S"..., 126) = 126
> [pid  8730] stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
> st_size=3543, ...}) = 0
> [pid  8730] geteuid()                   = 65534
> [pid  8730] write(21, "[2009/03/11 04:53:12, 10] smbd/t"..., 70) = 70
> [pid  8730] geteuid()                   = 65534
> [pid  8730] write(21, "  smb_set_file_unix_basic: SMB_S"..., 87) = 87
> [pid  8730] chown("file2", 65534, 4294967295) = -1 EPERM (Operation
> not permitted)
> [pid  8730] stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
> st_size=3543, ...}) = 0
> [pid  8730] geteuid()                   = 65534
> [pid  8730] write(21, "[2009/03/11 04:53:12,  3] smbd/e"..., 60) = 60
> [pid  8730] geteuid()                   = 65534
> [pid  8730] write(21, "  error packet at smbd/trans2.c("..., 81) = 81
> [pid  8730] stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
> st_size=3543, ...}) = 0
> [pid  8730] geteuid()                   = 65534
> [pid  8730] write(21, "[2009/03/11 04:53:12,  5] lib/ut"..., 51) = 51
> [pid  8730] stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
> st_size=3543, ...}) = 0
> [pid  8730] geteuid()                   = 65534
> [pid  8730] write(21, "[2009/03/11 04:53:12,  5] lib/ut"..., 51) = 51
> [pid  8730] geteuid()                   = 65534
>
>
>
> I tried this as well
>
> smb: \> chown 65534 file2
> chown uid gid file
>
> smb: \> chown 65534 65533 file2
> NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED chown file \file2 uid=65534, gid=65533
>
> With just uid supplied to chown command, I do not get any error but
> nothing changes on the server.
>
> cifstest8:/tmp/cifstest8 # cat /etc/passwd | grep nobody
> nobody:x:65534:65533:nobody:/var/lib/nobody:/bin/bash
>
> cifstest8:/tmp/cifstest8 # cat /etc/group | grep nobody
> nobody:x:65533:
> nogroup:x:65534:nobody
>

chown("file2", 65534, 4294967295) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)

That gid of 4294967295 does not look right


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