[Samba] Unable to write to a share that I should have access to

[Patrick Goetz]

On 3/8/22 00:49, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-03-07 at 20:40 -0600, Patrick Goetz via samba wrote:
>>
>> On 3/7/22 13:21, Rob Campbell via samba wrote:
>>> Following
>>> https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.samba.org%2Findex.php%2FSetting_up_a_Share_Using_POSIX_ACLs%23Setting_Standard_UNIX_ACLs&data=04%7C01%7C%7Ced0df6aa1dac4270f65608da00cfee65%7C31d7e2a5bdd8414e9e97bea998ebdfe1%7C0%7C0%7C637823190313579415%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=t8D4AdFB32Pgv8Cl4FaQrmWJ%2FoVwaUd7a4CN6fZs68k%3D&reserved=0
>>>
>>> # chmod 2770 /srv/samba/Demo/
>>> # chown root:"Domain Users" /srv/samba/Demo/
>>>
>>> When I try this, I get an error message
>>> $ chown testuser:"Media Users" TV_Shows/
>>> chown: invalid user: ‘testuser:Media Users’
>>>
>>
>> First of all, you can't use chown as an ordinary user.  Only root can
>> do
>> this.  Second, I'm pretty sure your syntax is wrong?  Try this (as
>> root):
>>
>>      # chown testuser:"Media Users" TV_Shows
> 
> You can run 'chown' as a normal user, whether you have the permissions
> to run it against a particular file is another thing. Also, there was
> nothing wrong with the syntax.
> 

What permission would allow you to run chown as a normal user?


> Rowland
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