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

[Rob Campbell]

When the normal user owns the dir, they can run chown, right?  Granted, it
would only be to update the group or to transfer ownership to another user
but I believe that is the only time a user has that permission.

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On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 11:02 AM Patrick Goetz via samba <
samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

>
>
> 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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