Nathan R. Valentine
2004-May-26 14:31 UTC
[Samba] ACLs, admin equivalent account, and file ownership.
Here's the scenario: - Debian stable. - Samba 2.2.3a-13 w/ ACL support. - XFS filesystem. - smb.conf: admin users = admin "@Domain Admins" - admin == the domain administrator account. I'm trying to recursively reset the permissions and access list entries on a series of directories. Some of the files are owned by users other than admin. Besides the "admin users" settings in smb.conf, user admin and the group "Domain Admins" have "Full Control" over the directory and all sub-directories. When I try to "Reset permissions and propagate inheritable..." on the root of the share I get messages like so: "An error occurred applying security information to: <some file name where the file is not owned by admin> Access is denied." My understanding was that listing admin in the "admin users" directive would make admin all powerful/root and allow the account to reset any and all ACLs and take ownership of files. What am I missing? Must I first take ownership of all files *before* resetting all of the ACLs? -- Nathan R. Valentine <nathan@nathanvalentine.org> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20040526/054b0b76/attachment.bin