I have set a samba user (say, remoteuser) who is supposed to manipulate files under some system folders on the samba server (i.e. and not only his home directory's files), such as e.g. /etc/somedir)
The dir now is under root:root ownership
In order to follow the safest approach, what is the preferred way of going about permission assignments?
One way (I guess) would be to create a group (e.g. sambagroup), and add both remoteuser and root to this group?
this does not seem to work probably due toetc's ownership of root:root.
Should I prefer acl and add the necessary permissions to remoteuser directly to /etc/somedir?
edit1: pls note (although it goes without saying) that remoteuser is both the samba and the system (debian) username for the particular user.
edit2: for some reason these commands do not help either:
sudo setfacl -Rm u:remoteuser:rwx /etc/somedir
sudo setfacl -Rdm u:remoteuser:rwx /etc/somedir
edit3: I would like file editing to take place on the workstation of the remote user, by letting him open a file via a text editor (e.g. gedit)
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