Topic: Help needed with permissions set when using Mac

[jumba]

Hi all!

I know a few things, but I really don't know how to handle this

Situation:

Server: Smeserver 7.3, all updates applied.

One client is using a MAC:

System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.2 (9C7010)
Kernel Version: Darwin 9.2.2

When that particular user creates new directories in an IBAY from the MAC, the permissions looks like this:

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drwx--S---  3 username groupname  4096 May 13 12:15 Name_of_directory
I asked the same user to walk over to a PC (Win XP sp2), log in and create a directory in the same IBAY, it looks like this:

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drwxrws---  2 username groupname  4096 May 13 12:18 Name_of_directory
The problem is of course that when this client uses his MAC to create directories in the IBAY, other members in the user group cannot access or write in those directories.

I've got a few questions here:

• What is the difference between "s" and "S" in the two lines above?
• How should I proceed to get the same permissions (drwxrws---) on the directories when created from the MAC?

[ste1986]

1) http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/group-permission-the-sticky-bit-permission-comes-in-capital-s-634652/

2) http://www.codebase.ca/art/index.cgi/OS%20X/OSX_Workflow_Perms.html


HTH

[jumba]

OK, thank you for your very quick respons!

I've forwarded the links to the specific user, I'll let you know what comes out of it.

[byte]

Please report bugs and potential bugs in the bug tracker. Thanks.

PS. I've seen this issue already in the bug tracker, search for bug and report your findings (that person is also using a mac)

[jumba]

PS. I've seen this issue already in the bug tracker, search for bug and report your findings (that person is also using a mac)

I can't find any such bug in the bug tracker, - if someone knows some more details about that bug it would be welcome...

[byte]

I can't find any such bug in the bug tracker, - if someone knows some more details about that bug it would be welcome...

I didn't have time to have a search earlier...here it is:

http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4164

[jumba]

Well, thank you Bute for that link.

I now realize that it's a quite complicated problem.

If I go into the server-manager and just re-save the settings for the actual IBAY, all files and directories are of course changed to correct permissions...

[mercyh]

If I go into the server-manager and just re-save the settings for the actual IBAY, all files and directories are of course changed to correct permissions...

Thanks for that tip. I had a folder in an Ibay I had copied in with winSCP that had files and subdirectories inside all with root as owner and group. This little tip set it back just the way I wanted it