samba - Jun 2002 - Log file usage ...

Greetings ...

	I have been give the task of either finding a way to stop people from 
deleting files from our Samba network, or as I suggest that would be less 
problematic, would be to log deletion requests.

	I know of the "Samba Recycle Bin" which I will be implimenting with
the
Samba 2.2.5 release which is just round the corner, but I was hoping that I 
might be able to impliment a logging system of what files were modified and 
delete and maybe more.  I was think that should not be a big thing to 
impliment in a VFS module and will be looking into this, but Samba 2.2 does 
not casade VFS modules, so I would have to do this Samba Head, which I am 
not happy about doing, because I am alread getting trouble because Linux is 
the unknow in all of this.

	I don't wish to change to M$ product for my server and believe that we can 
do better with an Open Source Product, but without proof that the Linux box 
is not the problem, but the users are.  I am looking a solution that would 
give me something close to Netwares salvage or more the logging so that I 
can proof that a user deleted the files and not some ghost.

	If anybody has a suggestion, please let me know.  Thanks.

Mailed
Lee

P.S. You can't do an undelete on ext3, so that is out of the question.

A solution would be to implement a VFS module that adds the file to the
veto files list.

Laterally, that would enable the file to appear deleted, but you have a
record (in smb.conf) of what file is meant to be deleted.

A suggestion, of course, but without the Recycle Bin, I think this might be
a good lateral solution.

At 01:23 PM 6/19/02 +0200, C.Lee Taylor wrote:
>Greetings ...
>
>         I have been give the task of either finding a way to stop people
> from deleting files from our Samba network, or as I suggest that would be
> less problematic, would be to log deletion requests.
>
>         I know of the "Samba Recycle Bin" which I will be
implimenting
> with the Samba 2.2.5 release which is just round the corner, but I was
> hoping that I might be able to impliment a logging system of what files
> were modified and delete and maybe more.  I was think that should not be
> a big thing to impliment in a VFS module and will be looking into this,
> but Samba 2.2 does not casade VFS modules, so I would have to do this
> Samba Head, which I am not happy about doing, because I am alread getting
> trouble because Linux is the unknow in all of this.
>
>         I don't wish to change to M$ product for my server and believe
> that we can do better with an Open Source Product, but without proof that
> the Linux box is not the problem, but the users are.  I am looking a
> solution that would give me something close to Netwares salvage or more
> the logging so that I can proof that a user deleted the files and not
> some ghost.
>
>         If anybody has a suggestion, please let me know.  Thanks.
>
>Mailed
>Lee
>
>P.S. You can't do an undelete on ext3, so that is out of the question.
>
>
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Martyn Ranyard

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and anything that I say may not be as
accurate as a response from one of the
team.  I reply to save those more
qualified time, which can more usefully
be spent developing SAMBA further.