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Date:      Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:37:08 -0800
From:      "Dave Walton" <walton@onlinemusic.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: suiddir and samba
Message-ID:  <3A6C8BE4.3978.1756EE6@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101212304440.55271-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On 21 Jan 2001, at 23:10, Doug White wrote:

> No, turn off suiddir and turn on inherit perms.  They are mutually
> exclusive.  

They are?  By my reading of the docs, inherit perms deals with the 
permission bits, and suiddir deals with ownership.  What am I 
missing?

> Read the smb.conf manpage about
> inherit perms and directory mode and it should clear things up.  

That's what I've done, and it's led me to the confusion above.

> And as I've said, if you're using 'inherit perms' you don't need suiddir. 

But what about file ownership?

> At my last job I did a combination of inherit and perm overriding for a
> large public file store (win98 sucks -- couldn't they have put a proper
> permissions browser on it?).

Why bother?  It's not even a proper operating system...

Dave


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Dave Walton                                                           
Chief Technology Officer                               OnlineMusic.com
walton@onlinemusic.com                      http://www.onlinemusic.com
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