[Hudlug] file permissions in Samba

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 20 Nov 2003 9:16 am, Tim wrote:
> Simon Fox-Jones wrote:
>  > Both users A and B are added to the group office and the
>  > permisions
>
> were are
>
>  > set so that the group is RWX on the file in question , yet each
>  > time
>
> either
>
>  > of the users uses the file they seem to take ownership and then
>
> change the
>
>  > group permissions to R only, its very bizzare
>
> It will be the permissions mask in samba. Samba just follows what
> the filesystem does, but a permissions mask is applied to files. 
> For instance, this makes it harder to accidently make world
> readable files in your home directory.
>
I stand corrected.  You are absolutely right.  I don't use 
create/directory mask in my smb.conf, but if it is there it will be 
controlling it.

> Also, a file which appears to be modified may actually have been
> deleted and recreated - hence the change in owner.   Your access
> has to depend on group rather than owner.
>
>
>   From my samba.conf
>
>
> [shared]
>      path = /shared
>      comment = Shared area
>      writable = yes
>      locking = yes
>      force  create mode = 0770
>      force directory mode = 0770
>      create mask = 0770
>      directory mask = 0770
>
What is the purpose of the two 'force' lines?

Anne
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