[NTLUG:Discuss] Samba, ACL - permissions
Keller Giacomarro
keller.g at gmail.com
Tue Jun 5 16:27:18 CDT 2007
Hello everyone!
I'm brand new to this list and to NTLUG - hopefully I'll be able to meet
many of you soon. Dennis Rice suggested strongly that I join this list and
ask the questions that he can't answer. Thanks, professor.
I had a question regarding Samba and Linux permissions. I'm just getting a
good grasp on unix-style file permissions, so please correct any mistakes I
make.
I'm trying to use a Ubuntu 7.04 server as the main file server for my home.
Since we're a mixed environment, samba was the way to go.
Here's what I'm trying to do:
I have a folder, /var/storage/backup , that is shared with Samba. Two
users, user1 and user2, both have write access to the share. I want each
user to be able to modify and delete files and folders made by the other
user. As it is now, the only way I can figure out to do that is to make all
new files in the directory have permissions of 777. However, this seems
foolish from a security standpoint.
I've read up some on ACL support in Samba and on Linux filesystems. Is this
the best way to go about accomplishing what I want? I found this howto (
http://www.bsdzone.net/howto/Samba/Samba_ACL_Linux/), and it seems to
explain about what I want do to. However, it seems like there should be a
way to accomplish this with standard Unix file permissions.
Any insights would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
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Keller Giacomarro
keller.g at gmail.com
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