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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//Samba-Team//DTD DocBook V4.2-Based Variant V1.0//EN" "http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc">
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<refentry id="vfs_readonly.8">
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<refentrytitle>vfs_readonly</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
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<refmiscinfo class="source">Samba</refmiscinfo>
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<refmiscinfo class="manual">System Administration tools</refmiscinfo>
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<refmiscinfo class="version">3.0</refmiscinfo>
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<refname>vfs_readonly</refname>
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<refpurpose>make a Samba share read only for a specified time period</refpurpose>
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<command>vfs objects = readonly</command>
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<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
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<para>This VFS module is part of the
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>
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<para>The <command>vfs_readonly</command> VFS module marks a share
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as read only for all clients connecting within the configured
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time period. Clients connecting during this time will be denied
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write access to all files in the share, irrespective of ther
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actual access privileges.</para>
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<para>This module is stackable.</para>
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<title>OPTIONS</title>
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<term>readonly:period = BEGIN, END</term>
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<para>Only mark the share as read only if the client
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connection was made between the times marked by the
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BEGIN and END date specifiers.
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The syntax of these date specifiers is the
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same as that accepted by the -d option of GNU
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>date</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
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<title>EXAMPLES</title>
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<para>Mark all shares read only:</para>
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<smbconfsection name="[global]"/>
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<smbconfoption name="vfs objects">readonly</smbconfoption>
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<para>Mark the [backup] share as read only during business hours:</para>
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<smbconfsection name="[backup]"/>
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<smbconfoption name="path">/readonly</smbconfoption>
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<smbconfoption name="vfs objects">readonly</smbconfoption>
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<smbconfoption name="readonly:period">readonly:period = "today 9:00","today 17:00"</smbconfoption>
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<title>VERSION</title>
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<para>This man page is correct for version 3.0.25 of the Samba suite.
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<para>The original Samba software and related utilities
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were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
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by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
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to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</para>