-- On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:48:21 jra wrote: >On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:33:11PM +0100, Dragan Krnic wrote: >> I'm so glad there are kind souls at this time of night. Wait, it might >> be day at your place. Good day! > >Yep, it's 1:30 in the afternoon here in California :-). > >> I don't see a contradiction in setting Readonly flag on one's own >> directories and then creating files in them anyways. It's very much >> like any overruling root privilege. It's just a flag, Jeremy, it's >> not our saviour's gospel. Bill knows we don't march over dead bodies >> and he's taking unfair advantage of it. >> >> I propose a new smb.conf feature for 3.0: >> >> [homes & especially profiles] >> overrule readonly dirs = Yes/No >> >> Default is "No", but in exceptional cases, like on almost every samba >> server, it may be enabled to write into one's own write-protected directories, >salvation be damned. > >The flag "dos filemode" is usually used for this purpose, I'll >investigate using it. > >Thanks, > > Jeremy. > Yeah, it was deprecated and abolished somewhere between 2.0.7 and 2.2.7, donno exactly. Resurrect it, please.
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