Permissions on One Folder?

carlosinfl · 10-10-2007, 10:45 AM

Guys - I have a /share folder that is located under / so the entire path is simply /share. This folder is a public open share via "Samba" and I was wondering how do I make any files that are placed in that folder by anyone owned by foo:foo? Right now when a user connects to my share and drops in files, its owned by nobody:nogroup and I would like to auto make myself the owner of any files in that directory.

Any thoughts? Here is the directory as it stands...

Code:

cwilliams@cwilliams:/share$ ls -la
total 236
drwxrwxrwx  7 cwilliams cwilliams  4096 2007-10-10 09:56 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root      root       4096 2007-10-03 08:36 ..
-rw-rw-r--  1 cwilliams cwilliams 81911 2007-09-14 10:34 centos_logo.png
drwxrwxr-x  6 cwilliams cwilliams  4096 2007-10-03 09:24 openoffice2
-rw-rw-r--  1 cwilliams cwilliams 84687 2007-09-14 10:49 redhat.jpeg
-rwxr--r--  1 nobody    nogroup   18453 2007-10-03 14:04 ssh_session.txt
drwxr-xr-x  2 cwilliams cwilliams  4096 2007-10-04 12:40 mirrors
drwx------  2 cwilliams cwilliams  4096 2007-10-04 14:18 .Trash-cwilliams
drwxr-xr-x  2 cwilliams cwilliams  4096 2007-09-13 16:31 code
drwxr-xr-x  3 cwilliams cwilliams  4096 2007-09-14 14:09 source_code

Disillusionist · 10-10-2007, 11:13 AM

You can modify the guest account entry in the /etc/samba/smb.conf file

carlosinfl · 10-10-2007, 11:23 AM

So change this line as shown below?

Code:

# If you are using encrypted passwords, Samba will need to know what
# password database type you are using.
   passdb backend = tdbsam

   obey pam restrictions = yes

   guest account = cwilliams
   invalid users = root

Disillusionist · 10-10-2007, 12:50 PM

That's the way I understand it.

By default the guest account is set to nobody, so if the guest account is not in the file or commented out, then that will be the account that gets used, this is for security purposes.

If you want files to be created as foo:foo, then you would need a user foo with a primary group of foo and have the smb.conf file entry:

Code:

guest account = foo

I dont have samba configured at home so I can't test the theory, please let me know if this does or doesn't work as anticipated.