SMBCACLS(1) UNIX System V (19 November 2002) SMBCACLS(1)
NAME
smbcacls - Set or get ACLs on an NT file or directory names
SYNOPSIS
smbcacls //server/share filename [ -U username ] [ -A acls
] [ -M acls ] [ -D acls ] [ -S acls ] [ -C name ] [ -G
name ] [ -n ] [ -h ]
DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the Samba suite.
The smbcacls program manipulates NT Access Control Lists
(ACLs) on SMB file shares.
OPTIONS
The following options are available to the smbcacls program.
The format of ACLs is described in the section ACL FORMAT
-A acls
Add the ACLs specified to the ACL list. Existing access
control entries are unchanged.
-M acls
Modify the mask value (permissions) for the ACLs
specified on the command line. An error will be printed
for each ACL specified that was not already present in
the ACL list
-D acls
Delete any ACLs specified on the command line. An error
will be printed for each ACL specified that was not
already present in the ACL list.
-S acls
This command sets the ACLs on the file with only the
ones specified on the command line. All other ACLs are
erased. Note that the ACL specified must contain at
least a revision, type, owner and group for the call to
succeed.
-U username
Specifies a username used to connect to the specified
service. The username may be of the form "username" in
which case the user is prompted to enter in a password
and the workgroup specified in the smb.conf file is
used, or "username%password" or
"DOMAIN\username%password" and the password and
workgroup names are used as provided.
-C name
The owner of a file or directory can be changed to the
name given using the -C option. The name can be a sid
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in the form S-1-x-y-z or a name resolved against the
server specified in the first argument.
This command is a shortcut for -M OWNER:name.
-G name
The group owner of a file or directory can be changed
to the name given using the -G option. The name can be
a sid in the form S-1-x-y-z or a name resolved against
the server specified n the first argument.
This command is a shortcut for -M GROUP:name.
-n This option displays all ACL information in numeric
format. The default is to convert SIDs to names and ACE
types and masks to a readable string format.
-h Print usage information on the smbcacls program.
ACL FORMAT
The format of an ACL is one or more ACL entries separated by
either commas or newlines. An ACL entry is one of the
following:
REVISION:<revision number>
OWNER:<sid or name>
GROUP:<sid or name>
ACL:<sid or name>:<type>/<flags>/<mask>
The revision of the ACL specifies the internal Windows NT
ACL revision for the security descriptor. If not specified
it defaults to 1. Using values other than 1 may cause
strange behaviour.
The owner and group specify the owner and group sids for the
object. If a SID in the format CWS-1-x-y-z is specified this
is used, otherwise the name specified is resolved using the
server on which the file or directory resides.
ACLs specify permissions granted to the SID. This SID again
can be specified in CWS-1-x-y-z format or as a name in which
case it is resolved against the server on which the file or
directory resides. The type, flags and mask values determine
the type of access granted to the SID.
The type can be either 0 or 1 corresponding to ALLOWED or
DENIED access to the SID. The flags values are generally
zero for file ACLs and either 9 or 2 for directory ACLs.
Some common flags are:
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o #define SEC_ACE_FLAG_OBJECT_INHERIT 0x1
o #define SEC_ACE_FLAG_CONTAINER_INHERIT 0x2
o #define SEC_ACE_FLAG_NO_PROPAGATE_INHERIT 0x4
o #define SEC_ACE_FLAG_INHERIT_ONLY 0x8
At present flags can only be specified as decimal or
hexadecimal values.
The mask is a value which expresses the access right granted
to the SID. It can be given as a decimal or hexadecimal
value, or by using one of the following text strings which
map to the NT file permissions of the same name.
o R - Allow read access
o W - Allow write access
o X - Execute permission on the object
o D - Delete the object
o P - Change permissions
o O - Take ownership
The following combined permissions can be specified:
o READ - Equivalent to 'RX' permissions
o CHANGE - Equivalent to 'RXWD' permissions
o FULL - Equivalent to 'RWXDPO' permissions
EXIT STATUS
The smbcacls program sets the exit status depending on the
success or otherwise of the operations performed. The exit
status may be one of the following values.
If the operation succeeded, smbcacls returns and exit status
of 0. If smbcacls couldn't connect to the specified server,
or there was an error getting or setting the ACLs, an exit
status of 1 is returned. If there was an error parsing any
command line arguments, an exit status of 2 is returned.
VERSION
This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the Samba suite.
AUTHOR
The original Samba software and related utilities were
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created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the
Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the
Linux kernel is developed.
smbcacls was written by Andrew Tridgell and Tim Potter.
The conversion to DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald
Carter
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