RHEL4 - permissions/groups and Samba

[nilesh vaghela]

As soon as the user access the file the user ownership will change but as u
have applied SGID permission the member of gourp of web_admin can modify the
files.
I you want to stick with only one user can user

force user = username

But g+s is sufficient as far as concern the file sharing and access.

On 1/29/07, nilesh vaghela <nileshj.vaghela at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You do not require u=s just apply g+s.
>
> Generally u+s will be for executables file only.
>
> On 1/26/07, Davis, Jared Scott <DavisJar at missouri.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> > Thanks for all the replies.
> >
> > I changed the sgid bit by: chmod -R ug=s www
> >
> > Then I used Jim's method by changing my smb.conf to this:
> > [www]
> >         path = /var/www
> >         valid users = davisjar, herrmanb, leisse, nilesn, shearerh,
> > harrisjm
> >         writeable = yes
> >         create mask = 0775
> >         force directory mode = 0775
> >         read only = No
> >
> > Now when I edit a file via Samba:
> > Before: -rwSrwSr-x  1 nilesn   web_admin 1908 Jan 26 11:35 global.css
> > After:  -rwxrw-r--  1 davisjar web_admin 1909 Jan 26 11:49 global.css
> >
> > Not sure what's wrong.  FYI my Samba version is samba-3.0.10-1.4E.9
> >
> > Thanks again,
> >
> > Jared Davis
> > Internet Administrator
> > Residential Life
> > University of Missouri-Columbia
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> > (573) 884-3616
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > ] On Behalf Of Jim Canfield
> > Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 8:49 AM
> > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> > Subject: Re: RHEL4 - permissions/groups and Samba
> >
> >    Andrei Pascal wrote:
> >
> > Jim,
> >
> > I surely hope you meant the SGID bit (chmod g+s), not the sticky one -
> > though the sticky bit might be a good idea as well (chmod +t).
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >    Correct!  Sorry for any confusion.
> >
> >    Jim
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