Document the readonly VFS module.
authorJames Peach <jpeach@samba.org>
Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:32:53 +0000 (00:32 +0000)
committerGerald W. Carter <jerry@samba.org>
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:47:26 +0000 (08:47 -0500)
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//Samba-Team//DTD DocBook V4.2-Based Variant V1.0//EN" "http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc">
+<refentry id="smb-vfs-readonly.8">
+
+<refmeta>
+       <refentrytitle>smb-vfs-readonly</refentrytitle>
+       <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
+</refmeta>
+
+
+<refnamediv>
+       <refname>readonly</refname>
+       <refpurpose>Make a Samba share read only for a specified time period</refpurpose>
+</refnamediv>
+
+<refsynopsisdiv>
+       <cmdsynopsis>
+               <command>vfs objects = readonly</command>
+       </cmdsynopsis>
+</refsynopsisdiv>
+
+<refsect1>
+       <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
+
+       <para>This module is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
+       <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>
+
+       <para>The <command>readonly</command> VFS module marks a share
+       as read only for all clients connecting within the configured
+       time period. Clients connecting during this time will be denied
+       write access to all files in the share, irrespective of ther
+       actual access privileges.</para>
+
+       <para>This module is stackable.</para>
+
+</refsect1>
+
+
+<refsect1>
+       <title>OPTIONS</title>
+
+       <variablelist>
+
+               <varlistentry>
+               <term>readonly:period = BEGIN, END</term>
+               <listitem>
+               <para>Only mark the share as read only if the client
+               connection was made between the times marked by the
+               BEGIN and END date specifiers.
+               The syntax of these date specifiers is the
+               same as that accepted by the -d option of GNU
+               <citerefentry><refentrytitle>date</refentrytitle>
+                       <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
+               </para>
+
+               </listitem>
+               </varlistentry>
+
+       </variablelist>
+</refsect1>
+
+<refsect1>
+       <title>EXAMPLES</title>
+
+       <para>Mark all shares read only:</para>
+<programlisting>
+        <smbconfsection name="[global]"/>
+       <smbconfoption name="vfs objects">readonly</smbconfoption>
+</programlisting>
+
+       <para>Mark the [backup] share as read only during business hours:</para>
+<programlisting>
+        <smbconfsection name="[backup]"/>
+       <smbconfoption name="path">/readonly</smbconfoption>
+       <smbconfoption name="vfs objects">readonly</smbconfoption>
+       <smbconfoption name="readonly:period">readonly:period = "today 9:00","today 17:00"</smbconfoption>
+</programlisting>
+</refsect1>
+
+<refsect1>
+       <title>VERSION</title>
+
+       <para>This man page is correct for version 3.0.25 of the Samba suite.
+       </para>
+</refsect1>
+
+<refsect1>
+       <title>AUTHOR</title>
+
+       <para>The original Samba software and related utilities
+       were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
+       by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
+       to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</para>
+
+</refsect1>
+
+</refentry>