[Gllug] Getting required read / write / access permissions

[Philip Hands]

On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 10:00:18 +0100, Bruce Richardson <itsbruce at workshy.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 09:40:04AM +0100, Chris Bell wrote:
...
> > Individual users need to be able to create sub-directories and
> > new files. [ snip ] It would be best if shared files can not be
> > deleted once created.
> 
> That last bit is simply not possible.  If users have sufficient
> permissions to create files, they have sufficient to delete them.

While that may be true from the unix file system point of view, you can
do it in samba, as shown in this thread:

  http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2008-September/143599.html

which also has a reference to this other approach:

  http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2008-May/140429.html

which doesn't need ACLs, and actually looks rather simpler to implement.

Cheers, Phil.
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