Hello.

I have a samba shared directory called "upload" which permissions are set to 2770. The ownership of the folder is root mygroup

This is so the users of the mygroup folder can write / delete files that are in there.

I want to put one file in the folder, basically a readme, that no one can delete or rename etc.

I've looked at the man page for chattr and I've also set the file permissions to 700. The users can still rename, delete the file.

Can anyone point me in the right direction please?

Thanks alot,

Regards
Craig

Just a quick one w/o giving much thought -- who owns the file?

Hi,

Owner and group owner is root. So the file info is something like...

-rwx------ 2 root root 153 Dec 11 14:32 /upload/readme.txt

For some reason I think it is getting it's permissions from it's parent directory.

>Craig

Crap -- I didn't send my message properly.

I think you're right. I did something similar in my homedir, and was able to edit a file owned by root. After I edited it, I was the owner, and the previous version had a tilde appended to it, and was owned by root.

For a quick work around, why not try a softlink from elsewhere on the system?

Yeah that's an idea. Basically it's going to be an empty file sitting there, the title will be something like "only upload full images" for example.

Oh well I'll keep looking : )

Thanks for your help though.
>Craig