1<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 2 <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 3 as read only for all clients connecting within the configured 4 time period. Clients connecting during this time will be denied 5 write access to all files in the share, irrespective of ther 6 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 7 connection was made between the times marked by the 8 BEGIN and END date specifiers. 9 The syntax of these date specifiers is the 10 same as that accepted by the -d option of GNU 11 <a href="date.1.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">date</span>(1)</span></a>. 12 </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"> 13 <em class="parameter"><code>[global]</code></em> 14 <a class="indexterm" name="id259590"></a>vfs objects = readonly 15</pre><p>Mark the [backup] share as read only during business hours:</p><pre class="programlisting"> 16 <em class="parameter"><code>[backup]</code></em> 17 <a class="indexterm" name="id259362"></a>path = /readonly 18 <a class="indexterm" name="id259369"></a>vfs objects = readonly 19 <a class="indexterm" name="id259376"></a>readonly:period = readonly:period = "today 9:00","today 17:00" 20</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. 21 </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id259396"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>The original Samba software and related utilities 22 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed 23 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar 24 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</p></div></div></body></html> 25