Is it a bug? No it's apparently a feature, Saulius!
-----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- Von: Saulius Gurklys [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. November 2002 08:31 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Dragan Krnic; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: [Samba] "attrib +R myowndir" fails to write-protect my own dir [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. Does this flag work for directories too ? Acctualy it does NOT work for me. With files is everything OK. If file is owned by other user, but my user belongs to group which has write access, I can change file atributes. attrib -R file_on_samba.txt But it does not work with directories... ! attrib -R dir_on_samba Access denied - dir_on_samba Is it a bug? -- Saulius -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
