[Samba] Change permissions as administrator

[Andrés Domínguez]

2014-04-28 11:01 GMT+02:00 steve <steve at steve-ss.com>:

> On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 10:37 +0200, Andrés Domínguez wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I have being trying to resolve this problem for another week without
> > success.
> > Is the 'SeDiskOperatorPrivilege' what allows a user/group to change
> > permissions? What does the privilage otherwise?
> >
> > This is a production server, so it is an annoying issue. I don't like
> > changing
> > the file owner to be able to change permissions by 'Administrator'.
> >
> > Any help is highly appreciated.
>
> Hi
> Is Administrator recognised by getent or id?
>

Yes, both 'wbinfo -u' and 'getent passwd' resolve administrator.

Why not make Administrator an admin user?
> admin user = DOMAIN\Administrator
>

It seems that this works. I thought that  'SeDiskOperatorPrivilege' was
enough to change permissions. What 'SeDiskOperatorPrivilege' means
then?

Or simply use setfacl to give Administrator rw on the share(s)
>

Administrator had rwx and was owner of the share's root directory.

Although I don't fully understand what's going on it's now working. Thank
you very much.

Andrés