Name
security mask = value
Synopsis
Allowable values: octal value from 0 to 0777
Default: 0777
Controls which permission bits can be changed if a user on a Windows
NT/2000/XP system edits the Unix permissions of files on the Samba
server using the Windows system’s ACL editing dialog
box. Any bit that is set in the mask can be changed by the user; any
bit that is clear remains the same on the file even if the user tries
to change it. Requires nt
acl
support
=
YES. Note that some rarely used bits map to the
DOS system, hidden, and archive bits in the file attributes in a
nonintuitive way.
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