On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>> On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, Lisa Muir wrote:
>>> The basic principal as I understand it is that whatever user owns the smb
>> process must have full privs on the filestem that holds the shares and
>> then you instruct samba on how to refine access control as per its own
>> internal list of users, but OS and filesystem level permissions will
>> totally overide and break the samba setup if you use them.
>> Do smbd and nmbd not normally run as root? They do on Ubuntu and Debian
> systems.
Yet, as I found out today, if you sftp a file into a samba share as
root, the samba user can only access it readonly! Seems to support
Lisa's assertion that filesystem permissions will overide samba's
acls.
Paul.
>> Gavin
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