samba - Jan 2003 - only owner (and root) can change attributes?

if i understand correctly, only the owner, and root, can change
attributes of a file?

thus, even though group members may be given permissions to write, and
delete, a file, they cannot change attributes, without the workaround of
copying and replacing the file?

and do i understand correctly that on winnt and successors, permission
to change attributes (eg 'everything' permission) can be granted to
other than the file owner?

does samba provide any facility, perhaps to perform the workaround for
the user when attribute changing permission was supposed to be given?

are there any ponderings in any corner to address the issue?  oh i admit
it, i just can't stand it when the microsnob drones have even the even
the twittiest niggling reason to claim that a linux server is inferior..

> if i understand correctly, only the owner, and root, can change
> attributes of a file?
> 
> thus, even though group members may be given permissions to write, and
> delete, a file, they cannot change attributes, without the workaround of
> copying and replacing the file?
I think you're looking for the "dos filemode" option in smb.conf.
(Note
that this doesn't seem to work for directories properly; I'm still 
waiting for a reply from the developers as to whether it's a bug :(

> and do i understand correctly that on winnt and successors, permission
> to change attributes (eg 'everything' permission) can be granted to
> other than the file owner?
If you're looking for permissions more flexible than the simple 
"owner/group/other", you probably need ACL (Access Control List) 
support. There's a number of documents around for setting that up; 
http://acl.bestbits.at/ might be a good start.

Also note that (as far as I know) there's no distinction between
"write"
permissions and Window's extra parameters of "modify", "full
control",
etc. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong...)

Hope this helps.

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