Sorry about the non-perl question, but thanks for the advice. Actually, this came up as the result of running a perl script that creates files owned by apache, and then my wanting to edit those files under Samba, if that counts ....

Anyway, I tried almost everything here. I made a smbusers file which sets apache = my samba user and added the line:

username map = /usr/local/etc/smbusers

to the global parameters of smb.conf.

I set the umask for apache and the samba user to 002. I changed the setgidbit on the document root directory for apache where the script is creating the directories that my samba user can't modify. I wasn't sure how to make sure that Samba was a member of the apache group except to make sure that the windows user accessing the box via Samba is. It is.

Finally, in the smb.conf file, I added the parameters force user = apache and force group = apache, since the user and group owners of the files created by the script are apache and apache respectively.

As root, I did a killall -HUP init and I waited the requisite minute for samba to reinitialize from the conf file just to be sure.

I can read the files created by the script via my windows share, but I still can't save modifications to them.

I do appreciate any additional suggestions anyone may have, especially given that this is only loosely related (for me) to Perl.

In reply to Re: Re: How do I make two users have the same privileges? by Reaped: Answer: Vroom testing some more
in thread How do I make two users have the same privileges? by Reaped: Answer: Vroom testing some more

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