[Leaplist] special dir permission

[Bryan J Smith]

On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 00:47 -0400, Carlos Rangel wrote:
> If it helps at all, I remember forcing the user and/or group on Samba
> shares.  I believe it was "force user" and "force group" in the
> smb.conf file.

Indeed, it popped into my mind as well when I read the original poster,
and knew it would likely not go unmentioned.  Samba lets you do all
sorts of things that ... well ... one would could not or would never
with other services.

I will just refer back to my previous comment ...

                "No operating system I know of allows this behavior for
                a reason, hence why GNU and POSIX systems do not" 
                        and
                "The best common practice (BCP) ..."
                
Understand I'm not going to tell anyone what to do with their systems.
But I will say that in my experience, in 10 out of 10 cases where people
start having issues with their locking and local permissions, it's
always because of such Samba configurations.

YMMV


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