Subject: Re: Dropboxes?
From: Chip Mefford (cmefford@avwashington.com)
Date: Thu Jun 01 2000 - 06:59:36 EDT
Just in case anyone cares,
I worked on this for days, tried everything I could
think of, tried everything everyone on the list suggested
and in the end, couldn't get it to work and gave up.
Now my "drop_boxes" are rw by everyone on the
machine.
I did it like this;
/home/user1
/home/user2 and so on
and;
/home/drop_box
built a new user script that works like this;
u="$1"
g="$2"
if [ "$1" -a "$2" ]
then
user="/home/dropbox/$u"
mkdir -p "$user"
ln -s "$user" "/home/$u/drop_box"
chown -R "$u" "$user"
chgrp -R "$g" "$user"
chmod g+rwx "$user"
chmod o+rwx "$user"
so there is a share called "drop_box" in that
share is a dir for each user, anyone can mount
that share and get to anyone elses drop box, if they
are a member of the same group, kinda
like a physical company mailbox, any one user
can see his own dropbox via a symlink from their
home dir, so user1 can just move stuff into
his own drop_box and tell user2 it is there if they
are too lazy to mount the share "drop_box" and drop
whatever into user2s drop_box.
It works out pretty well for my users as they
all had a hard time with the appleshare concept
of drop boxes. Folks used to whine at me that they
couldn't see what was in other folks dropboxes and
kept telling them it wasn't any of their busines, and
that didn't work.
This seems to be a decent compromise.
Works good on samba as well.
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Rich Winkel wrote:
> I tried this but I'm still having trouble. When I try to copy a file
> into the drop box from another userid, I get an error that the file can't
> be written because of an error of type -50. There IS a file created,
> but it has zero length, and is owned by the originating user rather
> than the owner of the drop box. The system log says
> afpd[15957]: afp_openfork: ad_open: Permission denied
>
> I'm using netatalk-1.4b2+asun-2.1.3 on freebsd 3.4-stable with the
> netatalk and suiddir kernel options.
>
> Thanks for any help!!
>
> According to Jeff Thompson:
> > Rich -
> >
> > You must make the permissions write and execute for the group, and you
> > must set the group sticky bit. for example, you would type
> >
> > chmod 2730 dropbox
> >
> > or if you want everyone to write to it
> >
> > chmod 2733 dropbox
> >
> > I think that will solve your problem.
> >
> >
> > -Jeff Thompson
> > jeff@zaius(.dyndns).org, jeff@artifex.org, jeff@kinkaid.org
> >
> > Where do you think you're going today?
> >
>
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