On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 10:56, Ian Cumming wrote:
> Hi Ken,
>
> If I remember correctly, someone asked a similar question a little while
> ago on the list.
>
> What you are observing is probably due to the behaviour of the way
> certain applications write to files. Some windows applications
> move/remove the old file, and create a new file with the same filename
> when a user "saves" an open file. Thus, you are losing the ACL on the
> file, so to speak.
While I certainly appreciate the reply, I have difficulty seeing how
this could be the issue. For example, as I said below, some users
actually lose permission to write to the very files that they created.
Clearly, a default ACL would already have to be in place for this to
occur, but none are. I will attempt to explicitly set the default ACLs
on my tree, and see if the issues go away, but I'm reasonably certain
that something else is at work, though, again, I'm not sure if it's
Samba or XFS that's the culprit.
If anything else comes to mind, please do let me know...
Thanks!
-Ken
> You could overcome this problem by setting a default ACL for the user
> group on the parent directory of any files you share. That way, new
> files are created with the needed ACLs to allow other users in the group
> to modify the files. Thus, files which are edited and "saved" by
> software of said behaviour will have the correct ACLs.
>
> hope this helps,
> Ian.
>
> On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 09:37:11AM -0400, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> > I'm not sure if this is a Samba issue or an XFS issue, but for various
> > users, on files that are commonly shared by others, the ACLs change in
> > weird ways, with no action (other than saving the file) on the user's
> > part:
> >
> > - One user, upon saving the file, has the ACL (but not the "stock" Unix
> > permissions) change to no permissions at all for group.
> > - Another two users, upon saving, have the Unix permissions change to
> > the equiv. of "chmod o-w".
> >
> > Any idea what might cause this to be happening, or where I should look
> > to find more info? It's entirely reproducible, and, right now, I have a
> > script running that "chmods" the files every couple seconds -- hack in
> > the extreme. Unless I figure something out, I'll probably start by
> > disabling ACLs in Samba, and see if the problem goes away.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Ken D'Ambrosio
> > Sr. SysAdmin,
>
> --
> Ian Cumming, ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> "The number of Unix installations has grown to 10, with more expected."
> -- The Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June, 1972
>
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