[Samba] require membership to two groups

Gary Dale garydale at rogers.com
Thu Dec 30 21:49:00 MST 2010


On 30/12/10 03:56 PM, Christ Schlacta wrote:
> I have some shares on a media server that are considdered "Local, 
> offline content", namely they should be accessible if the rest of the 
> network is down, and each system has it's own group of users who are 
> allowed to maintain it.  the media servers in the livingroom are only 
> for my wife and I, but each person can modify the one in their own 
> bedroom and noone elses bedroom.  Furthermore, the users must be 
> members of the group "Music" to be allowed to modify music, and the 
> group "Videos" to be allowed to modify videos.  currently my setup 
> looks like this for rebirth:
>
> [videos]
>         comment = Rebirth local Videos
>         path = /media/local/videos
>         write list = @rebirth
>         force group = videos
>         create mask = 0664
>         force create mode = 0664
>         directory mask = 0775
>         force directory mode = 0775
>
> [music]
>         comment = Rebirth local Music
>         path = /media/local/music
>         write list = @rebirth
>         force group = music
>         create mask = 0664
>         force create mode = 0664
>         directory mask = 0775
>         force directory mode = 0775
>
> but my fear is that someone not in the music group will still be able 
> to write to the shares.  is there a way to make it explicitly require 
> BOTH groups to allow writing?

I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to do, let alone why it is a 
problem. Since you are sharing files via Samba, why are you using group 
access instead of user access rights? Why aren't you simply using user 
accounts to control access the way CIFS usually does it?

Ignore the ZFS problems. If user A is in Music, then they have write 
access to the music share. If they are not then they have read access. 
Forcing the group simply overrides the whole point of having a group in 
the first place.

You can set Guest OK to yes to give the world read access, or you can 
set a Read list in addition to the Write list.



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