[Leaplist] special dir permission

[Ingo Claro]

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Subject: Re: [Leaplist] special dir permission
From: Bryan J Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org>
To: This is the Leap Main List <leaplist at leap-cf.org>
Date: 07/06/2009 03:44 AM
> 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
>
>
>   
Thanks all for your replies, I understand now how the permission works.

regards,
Ingo.-

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