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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>vfs_readonly</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.71.0"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="vfs_readonly.8"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>vfs_readonly — make a Samba share read only for a specified time period</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="literal">vfs objects = readonly</code></p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id291819"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>This VFS module is part of the
<a href="samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">samba</span>(7)</span></a> suite.</p><p>The <code class="literal">vfs_readonly</code> 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.</p><p>This module is stackable.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id259323"></a><h2>OPTIONS</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">readonly:period = BEGIN, END</span></dt><dd><p>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
<a href="date.1.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">date</span>(1)</span></a>.
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id259570"></a><h2>EXAMPLES</h2><p>Mark all shares read only:</p><pre class="programlisting">
<em class="parameter"><code>[global]</code></em>
<a class="indexterm" name="id259590"></a>vfs objects = readonly
</pre><p>Mark the [backup] share as read only during business hours:</p><pre class="programlisting">
<em class="parameter"><code>[backup]</code></em>
<a class="indexterm" name="id259362"></a>path = /readonly
<a class="indexterm" name="id259369"></a>vfs objects = readonly
<a class="indexterm" name="id259376"></a>readonly:period = readonly:period = "today 9:00","today 17:00"
</pre></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id259386"></a><h2>VERSION</h2><p>This man page is correct for version 3.0.25 of the Samba suite.
</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id259396"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>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.</p></div></div></body></html>