[Bug 268663] Re: files incoming through nautilus-share should be created with user ownership, instead of "nobody"

[Chow Loong Jin]

On Sunday 01,November,2009 04:45 PM, Bartong wrote:
> This is still an issue in Karmic.
Yes yes can you see the status? One says "new", and the other says "confirmed".
We don't need more confirmations, thank you very much. If you have a good idea
on how to fix this issue, then post. Otherwise please don't. If you're looking
to subscribe, click on the link over there that says "Does this bug affect you?"

> I tried using the 'inherit owner = yes' parameter both in
> /var/lib/samba/usershares/<sharename> and in /etc/samba/smb.conf, but
> this resulted in other clients not being able to write to the server, so
> it is not a fix
> 
> The only fix I have found is to set 'create mask = 0777' and 'directory
> mask = 0777' in the [global] section of /etc/samba/smb.conf which means
> the owner and group is still nobody:nobody, but full read/write
> permissions are granted to any user including guests on any file or
> directory created in the share.
Both "inherit owner = yes" and "create mask = 0777" have to be used in
conjunction with each other. "inherit owner = yes" will make the files be owned
by you, i.e. the owner of the share. "create mask = 0777" will ensure that
others can still write into the created files. Using "inherit owner = yes"
without a proper create mask will ensure that files that have been dropped into
a public share cannot be touched by others later on.
> 
> Setting these two parameters in /var/lib/samba/usershares/<sharename>
> does not currently seem to work.
I've spoken to the samba people about this, and they're not entertaining the
idea of having inherit owner as an additional option to usershares. This pretty
much means that unless anyone can come up with a solution for making this work
automatically within nautilus-share code, this bug is not going to go anywhere.

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Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Contributing Developer

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files incoming through nautilus-share should be created with user ownership, instead of "nobody"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/268663
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