> Package: samba > Version: 3.0.23c-1 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable
For you probably but up to now, we hadn't much reports that it is for other users.... > > We are running Samba 3.0.23c on Debian. > > Over the weekend, we updated out file server to Debian's kernel 2.6.18. > We had previously never run a kernel with ACL support enabled. Since > the upgrade, we are seeing very strange permission behavior. It appears > to berelated to POSIX ACL support in Samba. > > It seems that what's happening is this. > > We have a number of files that are user/group writable (permissions 0664). > When a user that is someone other than the Unix owner of the file writes > to it, the permissions switch to 0474 (-r--rwxr--) and an ACL is added > with this second user getting read/write permission to it. > > Unfortunately, the Unix owner of the file now is locked out of writing > to it. > > We never had any problem with permissions on these files before using > the ACL-enabled kernel. Well, first of all, the smb.conf would help a lot, here....
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