[Leaplist] special dir permission

[Carlos Rangel]

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

 

"If it helps at all ..."
 
> Subject: RE: [Leaplist] special dir permission
> From: b.j.smith at ieee.org
> To: leaplist at leap-cf.org
> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 03:44:48 -0400
> 
> 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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