[Samba] Losing Permissions of Files

[Tanveer Virani]

Hi Marc,

Here is the information that you requested. When I say that "all
permissions on a file are lost", this is at the windows level. In Windows
Explorer, we go to open the file in the default program, we get an "Access
denied. Contact your administrator." error. When I right click on the file
and goto Properties -> Security, I get a "You do not have permission to
view or edit this object's permission settings." This usually happens after
someone has edited the file. It is not one individual or group that has
this issue. It could be anyone within the organization. These files are
mostly Microsoft Office files (xls, ppt, and doc).

ACLs of file with permissions lost:
#getfacl "BS June 11.2013.xlsx"
# file: BS June 11.2013.xlsx
# owner: 3000059
# group: users
user::rwx
user:root:rwx
group::---
group:wheel:rwx
group:users:---
group:3000007:rwx
group:3000059:rwx
group:3000064:rwx
mask::rwx
other::---

ACLs after I copy the file (cp -pr file newfile)
getfacl "BS June 11.2013.xlsx.new"
# file: BS June 11.2013.xlsx.new
# owner: nws
# group: users
user::rwx
user:root:rwx
group::---
group:wheel:rwx
group:users:---
group:3000007:rwx
group:3000059:rwx
group:3000064:rwx
mask::rwx
other::---

As you can see, other then the owner, everything else is the same.

Any help would be much appreciated, or if you require more info, please let
me know where to look.

Tanveer


On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Marc Muehlfeld <samba at marc-muehlfeld.de>wrote:

> Hello Tanveer,
>
> Am 11.06.2013 21:41, schrieb Tanveer Virani:
>
>  I have a OpenSuse 12.2 system running Samba 4.0.6 (compiled from source).
>> Every once in a while, we run into an issue where all permissions on a
>> file
>> are lost. I've checked the ACLs, and they seem fine. The only way to get
>> permissions back is to copy the file to a new name, remove the old file,
>> and rename the file back to the original name.
>>
>> Can anyone help solve this issue?
>>
>
>
> - What exactly do you mean by "all permissions on a file are lost"?
>
> - Can you show the 'getfacl' output on such a file, before and after?
>
> - If permissions getting lost, did someone edit the file?
>
> - Does it happen only on a special kind of files?
>
> - etc.
>
> Please give some more information on the issue.
>
>
> Regards,
> Marc
>
>
>