[Gllug] ACL solution to samba created unowned files?

[John Edwards]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 08:14:02PM +0100, John Winters wrote:
> general_email at technicalbloke.com wrote:
>> I think the
>> trick was using an ace to make all new files created in that folder
>> members of a group and then make my user a member of that group. Does
>> that sound right / plausible ? If so, can anyone enlighten me as to the
>> syntax / procedure?
> 
> If you change the group of the directory to one of your creation, and 
> then set the group bit on the directory, all files created within that 
> directory will inherit the group ownership (unless Samba does something 
> funny).
> 
> $ chgrp mygroup mydir
> $ chmod 2775 mydir

Samba does not always obey the SetGID, and you may also need to
set the "force group" option for that share.

There is also a whole bunch of force file/directory mode/mask
options.


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