samba - Nov 2002 - Force User -

Hello,
I am using Samba shares as a way for my users to publish files from their
Windows XP PC's to my Apache Web Server on Red Hat Linux.

The username I use for Apache is apache and it has full read,write and
execute access on all the files within my webserver root directory.  In the
Samba Shares I use force user = apache so this means that any files created
using the share actually get apache as the owner.  However, this actually
gives the person who connects using the samba share the power of the user
apache which means they can change anything.  I dont want this.  I just want
to set it so that the owner of any files created by using the samba share is
set as apache.  I do not want people to have the power of apache!  Is this
possible?

Or does anyone know a better way of publishing to the apache webserver?
PLease help, thanks


Mr. Gerard O'Reilly
Intranet Manager
Siam Stars Ltd/ Thai-Belgium Industrial Co. Ltd
21/6 Moo 3, Soi Kayha Bangbua,
Viphavadee Rangsit Road,
60 Talad Bangkhen,
Laksi Bangkok 10210
Tel:  02-561-4649 or 02-940-8750
Fax: (66-2) 5611486
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You will need ACL support.

info wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I am using Samba shares as a way for my users to publish files from their
> Windows XP PC's to my Apache Web Server on Red Hat Linux.
> 
> The username I use for Apache is apache and it has full read,write and
> execute access on all the files within my webserver root directory.  In the
> Samba Shares I use force user = apache so this means that any files created
> using the share actually get apache as the owner.  However, this actually
> gives the person who connects using the samba share the power of the user
> apache which means they can change anything.  I dont want this.  I just
want
> to set it so that the owner of any files created by using the samba share
is
> set as apache.  I do not want people to have the power of apache!  Is this
> possible?
> 
> Or does anyone know a better way of publishing to the apache webserver?
> PLease help, thanks
> 
> Mr. Gerard O'Reilly
> Intranet Manager
> Siam Stars Ltd/ Thai-Belgium Industrial Co. Ltd
> 21/6 Moo 3, Soi Kayha Bangbua,
> Viphavadee Rangsit Road,
> 60 Talad Bangkhen,
> Laksi Bangkok 10210
> Tel:  02-561-4649 or 02-940-8750
> Fax: (66-2) 5611486

Why you dont use ftp?
Is more flexible as samba to web.
When you must use samba try disable force user and create cron job to change
owner on new files to apache.
It creates flexibility to  users can change uploaded files only by its owner
and only by time to cron job.
After this only admin user can change or delete.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "info" <info@ssltbivdc.com>
> To: <samba@lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 1:21 AM
> Subject: [Samba] Force User -
>
>
> > Hello,
> > I am using Samba shares as a way for my users to publish files from
their
> > Windows XP PC's to my Apache Web Server on Red Hat Linux.
> >
> > The username I use for Apache is apache and it has full read,write and
> > execute access on all the files within my webserver root directory. 
In
> the
> > Samba Shares I use force user = apache so this means that any files
> created
> > using the share actually get apache as the owner.  However, this
actually
> > gives the person who connects using the samba share the power of the
user
> > apache which means they can change anything.  I dont want this.  I
just
> want
> > to set it so that the owner of any files created by using the samba
share
> is
> > set as apache.  I do not want people to have the power of apache!  Is
this
> > possible?
> >
> > Or does anyone know a better way of publishing to the apache
webserver?
> > PLease help, thanks
> >
> >
> > Mr. Gerard O'Reilly
> > Intranet Manager
> > Siam Stars Ltd/ Thai-Belgium Industrial Co. Ltd
> > 21/6 Moo 3, Soi Kayha Bangbua,
> > Viphavadee Rangsit Road,
> > 60 Talad Bangkhen,
> > Laksi Bangkok 10210
> > Tel:  02-561-4649 or 02-940-8750
> > Fax: (66-2) 5611486
> >
>