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#1 2020-10-16 10:28:54

cryptoluks
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Registered: 2015-04-26
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Samba Guest Permissions - Can Not Delete Files

Hi,

I am unable to delete files mounted between two Arch Linux machines (upgraded both just now) as a guest user. Everything else works (create file, edit file, move file to other location on share, rename file, delete folder). But I am unable to delete files. When trying to move a file to e. g. /tmp, it gets duplicated but not removed on the source. There is no error when trying to delete a file, it just stays there like nothing happend..

This setup used to work including deletion as a guest user. I am unsure when exactly it broke..

When using the share with a user, everything works as expected.

This is the relevant snipped of my smb.conf

[global]
        map to guest = Bad User
        idmap config * : backend = tdb
        mangled names = no


[media]
        create mask = 0644
        force user = mediauser
        guest ok = Yes
        path = /zfspool/media
        read only = No

I already played around with some settings and also moved the share off the zfs pool to my btrfs root, but no success, the behavior is the same.

Thanks for any ideas :-)

edit:

this is how I mount the share for testing:

mount -t cifs -o rw,guest //<server>/media /media

edit2:

okay when settings 777 permissions on the media folder on the server, deleting works. But I never had these permissions set at the time it worked with guest. Weird.. In my logic, the guest user should have all permissions of "mediauser" because of the force user setting, therefore also be able to delete files. Instead, the guest user seems to map to another user, therefore the o-rwx settings enables deletion... Hm..

Last edited by cryptoluks (2020-10-16 10:51:53)

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#2 2020-10-29 05:01:23

kleptophobiac
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From: Sunnyvale, CA
Registered: 2004-04-25
Posts: 488

Re: Samba Guest Permissions - Can Not Delete Files

Have you learned more about this issue? It seems to have popped up for me with the latest Samba package release, but I don't see anything obvious in the 4.13 release notes that would lead me to expect this behavior.

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#3 2020-11-15 12:52:49

MilanKnizek
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Registered: 2005-12-13
Posts: 88

Re: Samba Guest Permissions - Can Not Delete Files

Any update?

I seem to be hit by the same issue - it used to work a few weeks ago.

The problems seems to be with "force user = scanner" and "force group = scanner" in sbm.conf, which I use so that all created files are owned by a single user.

The samba clients (they log in using their own username&password) can create and modify files, but cannot delete them.
I do not have any sticky bit on the SMB share directory on the server.
The "scanner" user on the server can delete the files.

P.S.2 Deleting files works when I set "force user" to the same username which is used by the samba client to log in (and when I modify the ownership of the shared directory to that very same user).

P.S.2 As a workaround, I set world writable bit to the shared directory ("chmod o+w /path/to/share/Scanner") and continue to use "force user = scanner".


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#4 2020-11-26 22:24:03

hatchling
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Registered: 2020-11-26
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Re: Samba Guest Permissions - Can Not Delete Files

I am also seeing this issue with samba 4.13. I rolled back to 4.12 but am surprised such a serious bug has made it to the stable release!

I also am using "force user" so there's another clue to the trouble.

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#5 2020-12-03 22:15:55

eta-carinae
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Registered: 2014-06-14
Posts: 8

Re: Samba Guest Permissions - Can Not Delete Files

Same issue, using force user.  Downgrading to 4.12 is the only solution that has worked for me.

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#6 2020-12-14 08:28:49

k0ste
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From: Russia
Registered: 2013-12-16
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Re: Samba Guest Permissions - Can Not Delete Files

Mailed about this issue. If somebody's have account on Samba's Bugzilla - please post ticket about this issue.

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#7 2020-12-28 16:15:09

Zeqadious
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From: New York, USA
Registered: 2007-10-15
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Re: Samba Guest Permissions - Can Not Delete Files

This maybe? is the BUG: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14471

Last edited by Zeqadious (2020-12-28 16:27:22)


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#8 2021-01-18 15:10:00

jmandawg
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Registered: 2011-10-19
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Re: Samba Guest Permissions - Can Not Delete Files

I had the same issue.

Try setting your folder permisssions to

chmod 777 <folder-name>

on the parent folder of the file you are trying to delete and see if you can delete the files inside it.

If that works add this to the smb.conf so newly created folders will have the correct permisssions

directory mask = 02777

You will have to change all existing folder permissions on your share using the find command.

find -type d -exec chmod 777 {} +

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#9 2021-01-23 05:43:56

jra
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Registered: 2021-01-23
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Re: Samba Guest Permissions - Can Not Delete Files

I have found and fixed this bug in Samba master. The bugid is:

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14617

There's a patch available in the bug report. I need to add a regression test to make sure we don't break this again but if people want to try the fix it's available.

The reason the bug made it into the release is it triggers an OS-level EACCES permission denied, which is currently very difficult to test with our regression test suite that relies on being able to run as a non-privileged user (non-root) which means it has to fake changing the uid/gid of the process. Underneath it all it's still running as the invoking user. I have an idea on how to test this and I'll try and get this test written up next week.

Cheers,

Jeremy Allison,
Samba Team.

Last edited by jra (2021-01-23 05:56:26)

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#10 2021-02-07 23:36:00

eta-carinae
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Registered: 2014-06-14
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Re: Samba Guest Permissions - Can Not Delete Files

jra wrote:

I have found and fixed this bug in Samba master. The bugid is:

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14617

There's a patch available in the bug report. I need to add a regression test to make sure we don't break this again but if people want to try the fix it's available.

The reason the bug made it into the release is it triggers an OS-level EACCES permission denied, which is currently very difficult to test with our regression test suite that relies on being able to run as a non-privileged user (non-root) which means it has to fake changing the uid/gid of the process. Underneath it all it's still running as the invoking user. I have an idea on how to test this and I'll try and get this test written up next week.

Cheers,

Jeremy Allison,
Samba Team.

Thanks for fixing this, and letting us know.  It's working perfectly for me.

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