[NTLUG:Discuss] force group ownership

[Bobby Wrenn]

I think these are the relavant snips for /etc/profile

##### Handle by Mandrake Security
#if [ `id -gn` = `id -un` -a `id -u` -gt 14 ]; then
#       umask 002
#else
#       umask 022
#fi

appears to be all comments. Which I would uncomment except for this at
the end of the file

# Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line
too.
umask 022

What do these numbers mean?

In case it matters the distro is Mandrake 8.1.

Thanks
Bobby

"Rob Holland (INSI)" wrote:
> 
> 1. Make sure the directory belongs to the planning group.  I assume its
> owner is root.
> chown -R root.planning /home/planning
> 
> 2. make new directories and files created by members of the group writeable
> by the group and readable by others.  Samba will also have to be configured
> this way (see step 5 below).
> chmod 2775 /home/planning
> 
> 3. Check that the default umask for regular users (i.e. the true side of the
> if-else-fi) in /etc/profile is 002.
> 
> 4. Check or add the Samba definition for the share.  I use linuxconf.  Go to
> config; networking; server tasks; samba file server; disk shares; add, and
> fill in the following fields:
> share name = planning
> comment = shared files
> enabled = yes
> browseable = yes
> directory = /home/planning
> public access = yes
> writeable = yes
> 
> 5. The next set of options is not available in linuxconf (atleast they
> weren't under RH 6.2), so edit /etc/smb.conf.  Add a section after the
> section added by linuxconf.  These lines allow the rules we set up for the
> shared files directory to be used by Windows clients.  By default, Samba
> would override these rules.
> create mask = 0775
> directory mask = 0775
> security mask = 0777  #allow win clients to set all perms on files
> directory security mask = 0777 #allow win clients to set all perms on dirs
> inherit permissions = yes  #carries forward prmissions from /home/planning
> 
> That should do it...
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bobby Wrenn" <bjwrenn at augustmail.com>
> To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 4:03 PM
> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] force group ownership
> 
> > For one of the sysadmin types.
> >
> > I have a directory (/home/planning). I have a group of users named
> > planning. I need to force the group attribute for files in this
> > directory to the planning group. I need for anyone in the planning group
> > to be able to edit the files in the directory. The files need to be read
> > only for everyone on the LAN.
> >
> > Just to make it interesting, this is all happening on a Samba share.
> >
> > TIA
> > Bobby
> >
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