[CentOS] Samba vs. Firewall and/or SELinux

Rob Townley

rob.townley at gmail.com
Tue Jan 1 00:27:32 UTC 2013


On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Craig White <craig.white at ttiltd.com> wrote:

>
> ----
> I guess I'm not sure what the point is by having files owned by 'nobody'
> and then adding nobody 'user' to the 'users' group - that seems to be some
> rather twisted logic that has security implications far beyond the simple
> samba share configuration but hey… it's your box.
>
> chirp users /data/public -R
> chmod g+s /data/public -R
>
> will ensure that all files/folders in /data/public are owned by the group
> 'users' and any new files/folders created within (whether by samba or not)
> belong to that group.
>
> if you add 'inherit permissions = yes' to the 'share' definition in
> smb.conf, that also will impact.
> Yes, you could also add:
> force security mode = 770 #or 775
> force directory security mode = 770 #or 775
> within the share definition too.
>


What is the chirp command and where is it found?
"yum search all chirp" yielded nothing.



More information about the CentOS mailing list