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Group permissions taking preference over user
Just tested this a few times and I can totally reproduce it.
Is it a new 'feature' in 6.5? Not from where I'm standing...
Let's say you have a user named exampleuser.
He's a member of a group named examplegroup.
You set up a new share, disable all protocols and leave only AFP.
You enable read-only access for group examplegroup and read-write access for exampleuser; disable everything else.
Permissions of the contents of the share are rwxrwx---.
Ownership is exampleuser:examplegroup.
At this point, connecting over AFP with the credentials of exampleuser doesn't give you read-write access to the share.
You have only read-only access as it takes into account the read-only setting for group examplegroup and doesn't take into account the read-write setting for user exampleuser.
Disabling the read-only setting for example-group resolves the problem and reconnecting to the share gives you read-write access.
Not sure what the situation is over SMB and/or NFS.
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Hi N_i_c_k,
Welcome to the community!
Have you tried configuring or setting up first the R/W permission for your 'user' the set the Read-only permission of the group where it belongs to? I hope you could give it a try and let us know what happens.
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community TeamHi N_i_c_k,
I just tested it on a PC using SMB and had a different result. It prioritizes the 'User' permission over the 'Group' permission. In MAC using AFP, I was able to duplicate the same behavior that you had. Let me check this with my colleagues to confirm if this is a bug or not.
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team
Hey Brian,
It's been 2 months during which other users have reported the same issue.
Still wondering if it's a bug?
Hi N_i_c_k,
Let me check this again with others who can probably assist you and get back to you as soon as possible.
Thanks for your cooperation!
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team
Any news on whether or not this is officially a bug that will be fixed in some release? I have had to work around this with AFP, and an eventual fix would be nice.
I have seen this same behavior and would really like to know when this can be fixed.
There's a related thread here: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Using-your-ReadyNAS/User-and-group-broken-permissions/m-p/1113043#M112630
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