[Samba] setfacl: Option -m: Invalid argument near character 3

Rowland Penny rowlandpenny at googlemail.com
Fri Dec 19 07:02:42 MST 2014


On 19/12/14 13:40, Rich Webb wrote:
> Running CentOS 6.6
> Using the Sernet Enterprise packages - sernet-samba-ad.
>
> Just tried:
>
> getent group "Domain Users"
> getent group DOMAIN\\Domain\ Users
>
> and neither command returned any entries.
>
> Rich
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-bounces at lists.samba.org
> [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Rowland Penny
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 8:37 AM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] setfacl: Option -m: Invalid argument near character
> 3
>
> On 19/12/14 13:22, Rich Webb wrote:
>> Matt,
>>
>> Thanks for the reply.  I'm not trying to add the "users" group.  I'm
>> trying to add the "Domain Users" group.  That is the reason for the \
>> in front of the space.  It's translated as a literal.  I think I could
>> also put quotes around it and not have to use the \ and the space.
>>
>> The problem is getent group only is listing local unix groups.  I
>> think that is why setfacl is not able to add active directory groups
>> to the acl.
> That may be your problem, 'getent group' will not show any domain group,
> but 'getent group <a domain group>' should show the domain group.
>
> If you are running samba4 in AD mode, then you are running winbind,
> though you may not be **using** it.
>
> Can you post what OS & samba packages you are using.
>
> Rowland
>> Rich.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mattias Zhabinskiy [mailto:mattiasz at thinklogical.com]
>> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 12:15 AM
>> To: Rich Webb
>> Subject: Re: [Samba] setfacl: Option -m: Invalid argument near
>> character
>> 3
>>
>> Hello Rich,
>>
>> First of all remove space in front of the group name "users":
>>
>> setfacl -R -m g:MYDOM\\domain\users:rwx ./shared
>>
>> For example, following command works for me:
>>
>> [root at vmtest007 tmp]# ls -ld test4
>> drwxrwsr-x. 2 root g-sales       4096 Dec 19 00:10 test4
>>
>> [root at vmtest007 tmp]# setfacl -Rm g:MYDOMAIN\\g-admin:rwx test4
>>
>> [root at vmtest007 tmp]# getfacl test4
>> # file: test4
>> # owner: root
>> # group: g-sales
>> # flags: -s-
>> user::rwx
>> group::rwx
>> group:g-admin:rwx
>> mask::rwx
>> other::r-x
>>
>> [root at vmtest007 tmp]# ls -ld test4
>> drwxrwsr-x+ 2 root g-sales 4096 Dec 19 00:10 test4
>>
>> where MYDOMAIN is windows domain name and g-admin is a group name in
>> MYDOMAIN.
>> Make sure that group "users" exists by running "getent group users"
>> command, for e.g. in my case:
>> [root at vmtest007 tmp]# getent group g-admin
>> g-admin:x:91608:alex,bill,joe,kevin
>>
>> Regards,
>> Matt
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: samba-bounces at lists.samba.org <samba-bounces at lists.samba.org> on
>> behalf of Rich Webb <rwebb at zylatech.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 8:33 PM
>> To: samba at lists.samba.org
>> Subject: Re: [Samba] setfacl: Option -m: Invalid argument near
>> character
>> 3
>>
>> Please is there anyone who has an answer on why this might be
> happening?
>> Do I need some sort of sssd support or winbind or something?  In the
>> wiki about setting up acl's it doesn't say anything about any other
>> requirements, only that you have to have acl support and xattr support
>> in your filesystem which I do.
>>
>> I'm trying to deploy this server and I need a working solution
>> tomorrow
>> - kind of in a bind.. I hope someone can help.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rich
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: samba-bounces at lists.samba.org
>> [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Rich Webb
>> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 6:29 PM
>> To: samba at lists.samba.org
>> Subject: Re: [Samba] setfacl: Option -m: Invalid argument near
>> character
>> 3
>>
>> I just tried that and I got the same error.  I think there is some
>> extended acl support that I'm missing somewhere.
>>
>> It's like the setfacl command is not recognizing the AD groups as
>> valid groups.
>>
>> I should also add the following information:
>>
>> This server is built up on CentOS 6.6 Minimal using the Sernet-Samba
>> Enterprise packages.
>>
>> It looks like the binary that is running is /usr/sbin/samba and that
>> is started with /etc/rc.d/init.d/sernet-samba-ad start
>>
>> Rich
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: samba-bounces at lists.samba.org
>> [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Miguel Medalha
>> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 4:42 PM
>> To: Rich Webb; samba at lists.samba.org
>> Subject: Re: [Samba] setfacl: Option -m: Invalid argument near
>> character
>> 3
>>
>>
>>> I tried setting the permissions from the command line using:
>>>
>>> setfacl -R -m g:MYDOM\\domain\ users:rwx ./shared
>>>
>>> and it gives me:
>>>
>>> setfacl: Option -m: Invalid argument near character 3
>>>
>> You should enter:
>>
>> setfacl -Rm g:MYDOM\\domain\ users:rwx ./shared
>>
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OK, do you have 'libnss_winbind.so' on your system ? it would normal be 
in /usr/lib or similar. If you have, then it probably just needs 
'winbind' adding to the 'passwd' & 'groups' lines in /etc/nsswitch.conf. 
If you cannot find it then it needs to be installed, anybody know which 
Sernet package provides it ??

Rowland


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