On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 02:50:30PM -0600, John H Terpstra wrote: > On Friday 27 May 2005 14:39, Doug VanLeuven wrote: > > John, > > Why should acl support be needed for a simple owner or group change? > > It isn't. I was responding to the matter of ACL's support. You are perfectly > correct - ownership management has nothing to do with ACL's per se. > > But in UNIX only root can change the ownership of a file, unlike Windows, in > which the owner can change the ownership of the file (or directory). > > If you want to make it possible for a user to change file and directory > ownership you will need to use the user rights and privileges setting to > provide that. The user will need to be given seDiskOperatorPrivilege - and > that makes them 'root' for all such operations.
Just an FYI: This is not yet implemented. I think the privilege would be "TakeOwnership" also. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
