ah, the sticky bit... you solved all my problems, I was thinking the sticky directory was the default behavior. thanx!
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 11:21 PM Subject: Re: [vox-tech] samba permissions issue > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 07:36:51PM -0800, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Ryan wrote: > > > I have a public upload directory set up with permissions 775, where I > > > want want people in my 'users' group to be able to upload files. > > > > > > Files that are uploaded are given permissions 755. > > > network neighborhood (winbloze), non-owners of a file that are logged in > > > over the network, but still belonging to the 'users' group, can > > > delete any of the files in the directory. I don't know why this is. > > > > Permission to delete files derives from the write permissions on the > > directory from which the file is to be deleted. The set of people > > authorized to create files in a directory is equal to the set of people > > authorized to delete or rename files in that directory. > > Jeff is correct, with a minor modification. If the directory low special > bit (aka sticky bit) is set only owners of the file may delete the file. > 1xxx. like 1775 or 1777. > this is how the /tmp dir is setup... you should try this and see if the > windows users still have permission to nuke files. > > from chmod (1) man page. > === > STICKY DIRECTORIES > When the sticky bit is set on a directory, files in that > directory may only be unlinked or renamed by root or their > owner. (Without the sticky bit, anyone able to write to > the directory can delete or rename files.) The sticky bit > is commonly found on directories, such as /tmp, which are > world-writable. > === > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
