On Thu, 8 May 2003, John H Terpstra wrote: > On Thu, 8 May 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 02:22:00AM +0000, John H Terpstra wrote: > > > On Tue, 6 May 2003, Joseph Leipert wrote: > > > > > > > I have Question, I have a school running on samba. I want none of the > > > > users to have the right to delete files, but they must be able to write > > > > to the files. How do I do that? > > > > > > You sure do have a question here! > > > > > > Under Unix/Linux the right to write to a file means the right and ability > > > to delete the file. If you can get that changed, then we can accommodate > > > your request. Until then, we live and die by the operating system we live > > > on top of. > > > > Errr, actually no - UNIX *can* do this. The ability to delete a file is > > held in the *directory* the file is contained in, not the file itself. > > Doh! So true! Thanks Jeremy.
I'm interpreting the question a bit, but I would think the original poster would want the ability to create _new_ files. Wouldn't this disallow creation of new files? -- DE -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
