I'm so glad there are kind souls at this time of night. Wait, it might be day at your place. Good day!
I don't see a contradiction in setting Readonly flag on one's own directories and then creating files in them anyways. It's very much like any overruling root privilege. It's just a flag, Jeremy, it's not our saviour's gospel. Bill knows we don't march over dead bodies and he's taking unfair advantage of it. I propose a new smb.conf feature for 3.0: [homes & especially profiles] overrule readonly dirs = Yes/No Default is "No", but in exceptional cases, like on almost every samba server, it may be enabled to write into one's own write-protected directories, salvation be damned. So it's not like samba team is committing a sin, but on the other hand how far would you go to deny your neighbour a glass of beer if he's thirsty, no matter what the Q'uran says. Regards Dragan On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 20:54:12 jra wrote: >On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 07:23:30PM +0100, Dragan Krnic wrote: >> A trivial case: >> >> executing the following DOS command from the prompt line on a Win2K SP3: >> >> %windir%\system32\attrib.exe +R H:\dir >> >> can't set the R(eadonly) flag on my home dirs (2.2.7): >> >> drwxrwsr-x 4 me users 4096 Nov 27 17:59 . >> drwxr-sr-x 2 me users 4096 Nov 27 17:59 dir >> -r--r--r-- 1 me users 0 Nov 27 17:59 empty.txt >> drwxr-sr-x 2 me users 4096 Nov 27 17:27 profile > >This is by design. From the source code : > > if (IS_DOS_DIR(dosmode)) { > /* We never make directories read only for the owner as under DOS a user > can always create a file in a read-only directory. */ > >Jeremy. > _____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB, POP3, Spam Filtering with LYCOS MAIL PLUS for $19.95/year. http://login.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus&ref=lmtplus -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba