On Wednesday 17 February 2010, Joshua J. Kugler elucidated thus:
> On Wednesday 17 February 2010, you said:
> > What type of permissions issues are you having? Can you describe
> > your architecture and OS versions?
>
> Windows 2003 on i386.
>
> FTP server (Filezilla...hey, open source, so I can ask this question
> here! :) ) is running as the SYSTEM user/group.
>
> Some files we want served (read and write) are owned by the group
> 'ftp.' ftp has full read/write/whatever permissions on those files
> and directories.
>
> SYSTEM can't read/write those directories. So, I added SYSTEM to
> the 'ftp' group. Windows happily complied, but even after restarting
> Filezilla, it still could not read/write those files.
>
> Is there any way to do what we want without "re-permissioning" all
> those files? Running the ftp server as 'ftp' isn't really an option
> because it also serves files that are owned by SYSTEM (And not ftp).
> Sigh... :)
So, it seems when you add SYSTEM to a group, it doesn't inherit those
group's permissions. No, I didn't find this documented, but the other
groups in the 'ftp' group have all of ftp's permissions (as determined
by the effective permissions tool). Sigh...now to figure out if we want
to re-permission all those files.
j
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