[CentOS] Samba vs. Firewall and/or SELinux

[Mark LaPierre]

On 12/31/2012 07:27 PM, Rob Townley wrote:
> 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.

I believe you will find that chirp was a fat finger for chgrp.

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