Thanks Volker. Adding Jeremy, as my manager told me that let samba team know that I am part of EMC lifeline team .. and some of team members discussed with Jeremy regarding some other samba problems.
Volker , if you don't mind can you elaborate this , if we make share offline , how the setting of acls goes through the samba source code.? ---- However, I think this might cause quite a few problems. For example, if you make such a share available offline, disallowing setting of ACLs will cause severe problems when clients synchronize their data. Moreover, some applications like for example Microsoft Excel explicitly set the ACL when saving files. You need to check if disallowing this does not cause you trouble. ------------- Thanks Suresh -----Original Message----- From: samba-boun...@lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-boun...@lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Volker Lendecke Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 5:43 PM To: Kandukuru, Suresh Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] Restricting samba subfolder acl changes to admin users On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 08:05:38AM -0400, suresh.kanduk...@emc.com wrote: > I am talking about users who has write access on the > share, not necessarily owners of the file/sub folders in > it. can we disallow the (some) users who has write access > on the share to change subfolder ACL's in it?. I want to > give this ACL change permission only to specific set of > users . I think this is valid requirement in general use > case. Yes, I think this might be a valid use case, although Samba does not right now do this. It would require a patch to add this capability along the lines of "valid users" etc. However, I think this might cause quite a few problems. For example, if you make such a share available offline, disallowing setting of ACLs will cause severe problems when clients synchronize their data. Moreover, some applications like for example Microsoft Excel explicitly set the ACL when saving files. You need to check if disallowing this does not cause you trouble. Volker -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba