Re: perl controlling samba permissions?

From: Ben Morrow (usenet_at_morrow.me.uk)
Date: 02/19/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:20:22 +0000 (UTC)

usenet@outshine.com (Anthony Boyd) wrote:
> I have a Linux box that is going to share a directory via Samba.
> People will be authorized to use the share via LDAP. They may change
> the file permissions (on the Samba/Windows side, but the Linux
> permissions should remain unchanged).
>
> I wanted to have a PHP script read the Samba permissions set on each
> file, and display that via a Web page. PHP doesn't appear up to the
> task (but it can get/set Linux permissions OK).
>
> Can Perl handle this? I thought Filesys::SmbClient might work, but
> the docs imply Linux permissions can be changed, not the Windows side.

I don't think the two sets of permissions are distinct...

Ben 

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