[Samba] Not possible to chown as guest?

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Fri May 26 13:34:35 UTC 2017


On Fri, 26 May 2017 22:19:17 +0900
john smith via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> 
> But I just want to change group ownership.  In order to change
> ownership to a given group a user has to be a member of that
> group. And in my case user nobody is a member of users group and can
> change file ownership to users group if it's done directly on the
> server but cannot do that when done on the different system in a
> directory when the share is mounted.

But then again, 'nobody' should only be a member of the 'nogroup' group

Doing what you are trying to do is very probably a security risk.

Rowland



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