I had this problem some last year and never got it figured out. Now it is bugging me. It seems that sometimes when a student writes his/her file to a directory, it will not keep the correct group. It puts his/her main group as the group owner and that fouls things up. Here is what I have. Unix Permissions /school 3777 admin.teacher /school/bhs 3777 admin.teacher /school/bhs/reese 3777 reese.teacher /school/bhs/reese/6thhour 3777 reese.teacher Now rosie creates her first directory in ....6thhour /school/bhs/reese/6thhour/rosie 3770 rosie.teacher /school/bhs/reese/6thhour/rosie/word 3770 rosie.teacher /school/bhs/reese/6thhour/rosie/word/chap1 3770 rosie.teacher Samba share that rosie gets: [school] path = /school/bhs read only = no valid users = @teacher @admin @bhs create mask = 660 force create mode = 2660 directory mask = 770 force directory mode = 3770 So here is how it goes. Rosie can make directories-files below .../6thhour (she is in the bhs group). Everything seems fine and dandy. All folders-files are getting permissions that they should so that rosie and the teacher (all teachers are in the teacher group) are the only ones able to see anything in the folder that she created (.../rosie). Then when she gets down to the chap1 directory and puts a file in it, the file has the user and group rosie.bhs (bhs is her main group). Now suddenly the teacher cannot access the files since she is not in the bhs group. Any idea why this is not pulling down the teacher group with the files since I have the bit set to keep the group of the directory? It pulled it down in the directories above (all files above had the user group rosie.teacher), but it seems that it quit when it go this deep in the directories. One other thing that is strange, is that some of them do have the user group correct. There are 2 files in the .../chap1 directory that have the user and group rosie.teacher just like they should. I logged on with her username just to test this and the files that I saved had the user and group rosie.bhs. Thanks for any help. -- Scott Mayo Technology Coordinator Bloomfield Schools PH: 573-568-5669 FA: 573-568-4565 Pager: 800-264-2535 X2549 Duct tape is like the force, it has a light side and a dark side and it holds the universe together.
Scott Mayo wrote:> I had this problem some last year and never got it figured out. Now it > is bugging me. It seems that sometimes when a student writes his/her > file to a directory, it will not keep the correct group. It puts > his/her main group as the group owner and that fouls things up. Here is > what I have. > > Unix Permissions > /school 3777 admin.teacher > /school/bhs 3777 admin.teacher > /school/bhs/reese 3777 reese.teacher > /school/bhs/reese/6thhour 3777 reese.teacher > Now rosie creates her first directory in ....6thhour > /school/bhs/reese/6thhour/rosie 3770 rosie.teacher > /school/bhs/reese/6thhour/rosie/word 3770 rosie.teacher > /school/bhs/reese/6thhour/rosie/word/chap1 3770 rosie.teacher > > Samba share that rosie gets: > [school] > path = /school/bhs > read only = no > valid users = @teacher @admin @bhs > create mask = 660 > force create mode = 2660 > directory mask = 770 > force directory mode = 3770 > > So here is how it goes. Rosie can make directories-files below > .../6thhour (she is in the bhs group). Everything seems fine and dandy. > All folders-files are getting permissions that they should so that > rosie and the teacher (all teachers are in the teacher group) are the > only ones able to see anything in the folder that she created > (.../rosie). Then when she gets down to the chap1 directory and puts a > file in it, the file has the user and group rosie.bhs (bhs is her main > group). > > Now suddenly the teacher cannot access the files since she is not in the > bhs group. Any idea why this is not pulling down the teacher group with > the files since I have the bit set to keep the group of the directory? > It pulled it down in the directories above (all files above had the user > group rosie.teacher), but it seems that it quit when it go this deep in > the directories. > > One other thing that is strange, is that some of them do have the user > group correct. There are 2 files in the .../chap1 directory that have > the user and group rosie.teacher just like they should. > > I logged on with her username just to test this and the files that I > saved had the user and group rosie.bhs. > > Thanks for any help. >I assume this one has everyone else as stumped as it does me. :) Thanks anyway. -- Scott Mayo Technology Coordinator Bloomfield Schools PH: 573-568-5669 FA: 573-568-4565 Pager: 800-264-2535 X2549 Duct tape is like the force, it has a light side and a dark side and it holds the universe together.