On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 05 May 2012 16:19:52 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > >> On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 1:50 AM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> Thanks for the informative email, however administrator is me so thats >>>> the reason i added that. >>> >>> Yes, but that's still dangerous. Why do you need to be in root's group? >>> >>> >> Because, there are few folders stored on samba storage where me as a >> administrator need to write files very often. > > Then you can adjust the share owner and permissions in a proper way. > >> so it seems easy to me that i have to just chmode 770 to the folder/file >> and things starts working accordingly. > > Easy, can be (I can't tell because I don't know the details of your samba/ > shares layout). Secure, not.
mostly share are like this............. [Library] comment = Shared Directories path = /hdxxx/100xx/libxxx/ read list = @all write list = nhasnain, admin read only = yes create mask = 0774 directory mask = 0774 > >> by the way , what kind of security consequences you are talking about? > > An impersonated user that can access/read/delete your system files. > >> note : i am using this only for samba share > > More reasons to avoid exposing your system security. Thanks , i got your point ....... and i like it too. ill change the right infrastructure accordingly. > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jo355m$4gr$4...@dough.gmane.org > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cagwvfmmwvnkdmtuwpfbw0t_0gn5-erodbtfjjgncz-m8kv8...@mail.gmail.com