Samba and *nix permissions

billymayday · 07-25-2006, 06:42 AM

I think /etc/passwd only has the primary group (its gid - the fourth "field" (user : password (usually x - means stored elsewhere) : user ID : gid : full name : home dir : shell) in the passwd file).

This is the same number stored in /etc/group

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tcv · 07-25-2006, 07:16 AM

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Originally Posted by billymayday

tcv, I just had a quick play. I think the issue is how to ensure that if user1 creates a file in /home/user1, that it's group is your new group. By default, the file will be created as owned by user1 of group user1. I'm not sure how you change this behaviour, if in fact you can.

Ahhhh, I just realized what you meant by this. In fact, I just tried it and, sure enough, ham can't copy files from the folders because new files are tagged to the user's group. Ah well, I had to learn somehow.

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Originally Posted by billymayday

A simple solution to your overall problem (I just re-read your post) could be to create a cron job to run as root that backs up the users' directories to, say /home/shared and let the Windows Server 2003 machine have read access for backups. Something like tar will work well for this. Only ham and the Windows machine would need read access to this directory.

How does one give a single user access to a particular directory?

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