[Samba] Group write does not allow delete or rename?

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Wed May 15 07:50:56 UTC 2024


On Wed, 15 May 2024 17:27:53 +1000
Paul Szabo via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Dear Samba list,
> 
> I have an issue with what seems to be group permissions, when using a
> stand-alone Samba file server.
> 
> I have a directory where files are meant to be writable to a group of
> users. The permissions on Linux are:
> 
>   root# ls -ld /users/misc/teaching /users/misc/teaching/*
>   drwxrws--- 2 teaching csos 4096 May 15 08:47 /users/misc/teaching
>   -rw-rw---- 1 teaching csos   17 May 15 08:23
> /users/misc/teaching/test.txt
> 

It doesn't matter what you have set there, those permissions will be
ignored by Samba because you also have 'acl_xattr:ignore system acls =
yes' set. Setting that does exactly what it says on the tin, Samba will
ignore the system permissions.

Rowland



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