Samba and non root user

davo22 · December 29, 2021 at 9:15 PM

I know that libreelec comes with a single user "root" but I would like to know if is possible to create something like a fake user.

I have syncthing running as docker container and on run it specifies the user 10 and the group 10. In the docs it's advised to run syncthing with a non root-user. So the files created from syncthing have the 10:10 as user group. This user does not exist in the /etc/passwd as it's not writable.

In samba.conf there's a possibility to specify the owner of the file created with

force user = 10

force group = 10

This would theoretically create a user with 10:10. But when I try to browse the samba shares I receiver "The specified user does not exist". The problem is that without that settings, samba write a file that is owned by root so syncthing cannot delete/rename it.

Is there a user between root and nobody that I can use instead? Or is is possible to create a new temporary user after boot without the need of changing the /etc/passwd?

elonesna · December 29, 2021 at 9:40 PM

A year ago I had the same problem and my solution was to use 'root' in syncthing. Regarding 'samba' I did not see any possibility to use more users and I configured hidden directories in '/storage/.config/samba.conf', later when I met the docker container drakkan / sftpgo (server SSH / SFTP / FTP / WebDAB) I definitely stopped using samba.

My 'syncthing' install SSH command is:

Code

docker run \
  --name=8384-syncthing \
  -e PUID=0 \
  -e PGID=0 \
  -e TZ=Europe/Paris \
  -e UMASK_SET=022 \
  -p 8384:8384 \
  -p 22000:22000 \
  -p 21027:21027/udp \
  -v /storage/.config/dockers/syncthing/config:/config \
  -v /storage:/storage \
  -v /media:/media \
  --net=host \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  -d linuxserver/syncthing

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My 'sftpgo' install SSH command is:

Code

docker run \
  --name 8080-servers-go \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  --user 0:0 \
  -p 8080:8080 \
  -p 2022:2022 \
  -p 2121:2121 \
  -p 10080:10080 \
  -p 50000-50100:50000-50100 \
  -e PUID=0 \
  -e PGID=0 \
  -e TZ=Europe/Madrid \
  -e SFTPGO_FTPD__BINDINGS__0__PORT=2121 \
  -e SFTPGO_FTPD__BINDINGS__0__FORCE_PASSIVE_IP=127.0.0.1 \
  -e SFTPGO_FTPD__PASSIVE_PORT_RANGE__START=50000 \
  -e SFTPGO_FTPD__PASSIVE_PORT_RANGE__END=50100 \
  -e SFTPGO_WEBDAVD__BINDINGS__0__PORT=10080 \
  -v /storage/.config/dockers/servers-go/data:/srv/sftpgo \
  -v /storage/.config/dockers/servers-go/config:/var/lib/sftpgo \
  -v /storage:/storage \
  -v /media:/media \
  -d drakkan/sftpgo:alpine

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but you will have to find the usage and setup instructions at hub.docker.com and at http://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo.

Samba and non root user

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