Fellow List Members:
After upgrading our server to RHEL 6 from RHEL 5, I discovered that our
linux clients could create files on the share but not delete them unless
they first switch to root (su -).
This is very odd to me since the share in question is mounted with the
non-root user's credentials. The fstab entry is as follows:
//192.168.1.2/officefiles /mnt/officefiles cifs
username=joe,password=fakepwd 0 0
Now, the version of samba on the server is 3.5.10 and on the client is
3.5.4. I can't upgrade the client w/o difficulty since it is an expired
distribution (OpenSuSE 11.3).
The smb conf forces full permissions on files and directories. Here is
the share:
[officefiles]
force create mode = 777
create mode = 777
path = /cool/officefiles
force directory mode = 777
directory mode = 777
And, the mount owner also belongs to the cool_users group on the server:
drwxrwxr-x 25 jim cool_users 4096 Jun 26 14:26 officefiles
Notice, there is no sticky bit on the directory. Now, if I add the user
option after installing setuid on /bin/mount and /sbin/mount.cifs, I
can mount the share as joe and delete files to my heart's content. So, I
am wondering if this is by design so that if I want the user to be able
to delete from the share,
they need to not only have linux and samba permissions but also be the
user that mounts the share. If this is not the design, PLEASE tell me
what I am missing. Here is the global section
of the smb.conf for good measure:
[global]
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
load printers = yes
idmap gid = 16777216-33554431
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
winbind use default domain = no
template shell = /bin/false
dns proxy = no
oplocks = no
cups options = raw
netbios name = cool-server
delete readonly = yes
writeable = yes
server string = Samba Server
password server = None
idmap uid = 16777216-33554431
workgroup = COOL
os level = 20
printcap name = /etc/printcap
create mode = 775
short preserve case = no
max log size = 50
directory mode = 775
Thanks.
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David J. Rericha
Project Manager
Open Software Solutions, LLC
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