Hi all

We recently moved from old (but great) Novell 3.12 to a Linux Machine with Samba 3.

However we lost some features which I'd like to know if there is something similar in Linux.

In novell I was able to create rights for a file/directory for an individual so that he could create a file but not delete it.
This is my main concern


There was Create,Erase,Modify, where in Linux they all come to Write.


Any one knows how to do this?

or if not

Does anyone has a clue of a way arround to build a directory where people from an office could see and create files but not delete or modify them?

I need to create an electronic record of our costumer interaction information, that's why I need all to place their contact documents but no one to modify an old record for any reason
thanks

The only suggestion: create a sleep/wake process that goes out every 30 seconds, finds files with open security, sees if the file is open (fuser or lsof), if not open, then resets protections on the file to r--r--r-x. Or whatever.

You should also create a dummy user who is a member of the group your users are in- give him ownership of the file. Otherwise, the file's owner - a real user - can chmod the file and edit it. If you set ownership of the directory to that user then set the protections on the directory to something like ----swx all files created in the directory belong to the dummy user.

I think chmod with the t option can do that. Basicaly if you set up a file owned by root. Then change the premissions to allow normal users to read write and execute it. You can just create the file and then run a single chmod command to set it up. Try running chmod --help for more info