[ILUG] Filesystem ACLs versus permissions in smb.conf

[Brian O'Mahony]

And Redhat and suse also.

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From: ilug-bounces at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-bounces at linux.ie] On Behalf Of Gavin McCullagh
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 9:59 PM
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Filesystem ACLs versus permissions in smb.conf

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.

Gavin

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