on 2-19-2009 1:53 PM Tim Nelson spake the following: > ----- "Scott Silva" <ssilva@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> on 2-19-2009 1:31 PM Tim Nelson spake the following: >>> ----- "MHR" <mhullrich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:15 PM, nate >> <centos-T6AQWPvKiI1cRAk/VAjCeQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>> wrote: >>>>> Tim Nelson wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I've been around and around on this topic and I'm just hoping >>>> someone can >>>>>> give me a little sanity by confirming 'yay or nay' whether this >> is >>>> possible >>>>>> or not. >>>>> It may be possible to prevent them from deleting a file, but if >>>> they >>>>> have write access it wouldn't be possible from effectively >> deleting >>>>> the file by wiping it's contents(truncating it). >>>>> >>>> However, file creation and deletion are functions of the directory >>>> permissions where the file resides. If a directory allows a user >> to >>>> write to it, they can create and delete files in that directory >> with >>>> reckless abandon. >>>> >>>> There are probably some intricate ways around this particular >>>> problem, >>>> but they can get pretty complicated really fast. >>>> >>>> HTH. >>>> >>>> mhr >>> I've been trying to devise a way around this problem and as you >> mentioned, it gets extremely complicated quickly. It's even more >> complicated than allowing users to delete files and restoring the file >> from a backup set. Well, at least I don't feel I'm going insane >> anymore (for now...). >>> Thank you to all who responded. >>> >>> --Tim >> I have enabled the recycle bin vfs object on my systems. That way a >> user has >> to really try and delete a file to make it go away. Like windows, they >> would >> have to delete it, go look in the recycle bin (that you can hide) and >> delete >> it again. >> It has saved me many hours of recovering stuff. > > Ooooooo! This may indeed be a partial solution. 'Administrators' could have access to the Recycle Bin to restore deleted items where 'users' would not have access. Interesting... > > --Tim And you can also set it to keep versions of deleted files. Pretty cool! But beware of most of the docs on the internet that mention creating a "recycle.conf" file. That option has been broken for some time, and you need to put all the definitions into smb.conf directly. Check the last post on this page for the syntax; http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=155763&page=2 -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!
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