Hello I am trying to create a 'dropbox' share, using the sticky bit and 'inherit owner'.
By themselves they work, but when a directory is created in this share, its permissions are not quite what I need. Therefore, I try to use 'force directory mode' or 'inherit permissions'. However, whenever I do that, the owner on the newly-created directory is no longer correct w/regard to 'inherit owner'. Is this correct behavior, or a bug? Here are details: The directory I'm sharing: drwsrwsr-t 2 nobody sambaguest 512 Aug 17 22:18 myshare My smb.config (well, the relevant part): # ... snip guest account = sambaguest # ... snip [myshare] comment = my share path = /path/to/myshare public = yes read only = no writable = yes browseable = yes printable = no inherit owner = yes #inherit permissions = yes #directory mode = 3770 #force directory mode = 3770 As it is written above, when I create a directory from a windows box it looks like: drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody sambaguest 512 Aug 17 22:19 New Folder Correct ownership but I want group write and the sticky bit to be set, as in the parent directory. So I uncomment 'inherit permissions', create another directory, and get: drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody sambaguest 512 Aug 17 22:26 New Folder (2) No change. Anyone know why inherit permissions would have no effect here? I would expect the sticky bit, sgid, and the group-write of the parent directory to apply to the new directory. So I comment 'inherit permissions' back out, and instead try the pair of lines with 'directory mode' and 'force directory mode'. Then a newly created dir looks like: drwxrwsr-t 2 sambaguest sambaguest 512 Aug 17 22:32 New Folder (3) ARG! Perfect permissions, but the user is wrong, which lets people modify (rename, delete, etc) the directory. Normally, the sticky bit would prevent this since the owner would be 'nobody'. But now the owner is 'sambaguest', so users can wreak havoc on these newly created dirs... Can anybody explain to me what I'm missing? I have researched this a bit and tried various things, but nothing has worked so far... This is Samba 3.3.6 on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE Thanks, John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
