RHEL4 - permissions/groups and Samba

[nilesh vaghela]

use SGID for the directory

like

chgrp web_admin /var/www/html
chmod g+s /var/www/html

now check.

On 1/25/07, Gareth Llewellyn <gareth.llewellyn at itvision.net> wrote:
>
> Hope this helps:
> http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/appendix.html#ch12-SUIDSGID
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Davis, Jared Scott
> Sent: 25 January 2007 16:53
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: RHEL4 - permissions/groups and Samba
>
> I have multiple users editing documents in the www/html folder.  I set
> up a group called web_admin that contains said users.  All of the files
> under the web root are owned by my local account and the group is
> web_admin.  We are using Samba to connect to the box.  The problem is as
> follows:
>
> I have a file:
>
>
>
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 nilesn   web_admin  977 Jan 25 06:52 menu.css
>
>
>
> When a user (davisjar) edits that file via Samba, the
> permissions/owner/group change to this:
>
>
>
> -rwxr--r--  1 davisjar davisjar   977 Jan 25 10:47 menu.css
>
>
>
> Of couse I need the permissions and owner/group to stay the same.  Is
> this a problem with Samba, i.e. some config option, or something else?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Jared Davis
>
>
>
>
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