Browse list problem sorted (PR#7918)
Dirk De Wachter
Dirk.DeWachter at rug.ac.be
Fri Aug 21 11:21:58 GMT 1998
> > >> >Well, the problem turned out to be permissions on the .../samba/var and
> > >> >../samba/var/locks directories; not allowing the 'guest account' access
> > >> >to the files. D'oh!
> > >
> > > Since the guest account is supposed to have minimal priveleges, I wonder
> > > whether this is the correct solution to the problem....
> >
> > First of all, apologies for the delay. We are slowly catching up with the
> > backlog.
> >
> > I tested this. Indeed Troels is correct. So is Charlie. This is not elegant.
> >
> >
> > Samba-technical: Could we look at a more appropriate way to handle this?
>
> I've added a test to testparm. It now produces a warning if the
> locks directory does not have 0644 permissions.
Does this also cover the case when the parent directories of the
locks directories aren't readable?
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Dirk De Wachter, MScEE, MScBME, PhD http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~ddwachte
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