[Bug 490380] Re: Please set option inherit owner by default on guest-enabled SMB shares

2009-12-07 Thread Fabio Bossi
OK, maybe setting that option is not the right thing to do, but I still have a strong feeling that something must be changed. New users who want to share files between their Ubuntu and Windows PC and create a guest- enabled share will be outraged when they find out that they cannot read their files

[Bug 490380] Re: Please set option inherit owner by default on guest-enabled SMB shares

2009-12-06 Thread Thierry Carrez
Yes, by default in samba, files created by the guest user are created under the account specified in configuration under "guest account", by default user "nobody". Creating them under the rights of the owner of the directory is introducing security risks that are not appropriate for a default confi