[Cialug] Permissions or Samba setting?

[Nathan C. Smith]

"sticky"!  That must be what I was looking for.  One for the goofy terms
list.

Thanks Josh.

-Nate 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh More [mailto:morej at alliancetechnologies.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 2:04 PM
> To: 'Central Iowa Linux Users Group'
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Permissions or Samba setting?
> 
> Look into setting umask for the samba process, and turn on the group
> sticky bit for the folders.  Setting the umask to make any files group
> writable will make any new files be set to g+w.  Setting the group bit
> sticky will make all files owned by a common group.  That 
> will give all
> of your users the ability to read/write all files within the 
> structure.
> 
> I am assuming that that fits the business need.  If I'm wrong and you
> actually want every file to be stored as the equivalent to:
> 
> chown -R joeuser:fungroup /path/to/foo
> chmod -R 755 /path/to/foo
> 
> Then you would need to set up user equivalents in samba, which may not
> be a good idea.
> 
> 
>  
> 
> -Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC 
>  morej at alliancetechnologies.net 
>  515-245-7701
> 
> 
> 
> >>> "Nathan C. Smith" <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> 09/12/07 1:59 PM >>> 
> 
> I have directory that is also shared via Samba.  I would like every
> file
> created in this directory to have the same user/group ownerships and
> permissions.  Can I set this via file permissions?  What is the term I
> should be looking for?
> 
> Is it better to do this sort of thing in the file permissions or in
> Samaba
> settings?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Nate
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