rights & Daemons

[Socaltom]

Ok,
I'm running motion to monitor some ip cams. When it creates new directories, and files they are owned by rootr:root.
My samba guest user is guest. The guest account can view them, but not delete the files/directories.

I'd like to be able to delete them from my windows box through samba, but I'm not sure how to make one of the following work.

1) start motion with user guest, so that all the files and directories can be deleted by guest
2) set default rights for those directories to 777 do guest can delete them.
3) Other option?

This is a V3, so this needs to work with rc.d
Thanks
Tom

[WarheadsSE]

make guest the group owner
chown root:guest <dir>
chmod g+S <dir>

Or, 644 the files with a mask.

[moonman]

If you are not concerned about security, you can add an option to smb.conf to force user root

[Socaltom]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WarheadsSE', 'm')ake guest the group owner
chown root:guest <dir>
chmod g+S <dir>

Or, 644 the files with a mask.

[WarheadsSE]

the group sticky bit, have a look into it.

[Socaltom]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WarheadsSE', 't')he group sticky bit, have a look into it.