[Samba] Can one set the owner of a folder to BUILTIN\Administrators?
Miguel Medalha
miguelmedalha at sapo.pt
Wed Feb 17 19:17:12 UTC 2016
>
> Normally a group cannot 'own' files etc, Unix uses ugo permissions and
> when you chown a file you would use something like this:
>
> chown foo:somegroup somefile
>
> this would make 'foo' the owner of the file and possibly allow
> 'somegroup' access to it, this would depend on whatever permissions you
> set with 'chmod'
>
> So, as far as Unix is concerned, you shouldn't be able to chown a file
> to 'BUILTIN\Administrators' because it is a group (g) and not a user (u)
>
On my Samba 4 AD Domain Controler I can chown to 'BUILTIN\Administrators'
alright. Not on my member servers, though.
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