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+<samba:parameter name="acl check permissions"
+ context="S"
+ type="boolean"
+ advanced="1" wizard="1"
+ xmlns:samba="http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc">
+<description>
+ <para>This boolean parameter controls what <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>does on receiving a protocol request of "open for delete"
+ from a Windows client. If a Windows client doesn't have permissions to delete a file then they
+ expect this to be denied at open time. POSIX systems normally only detect restrictions on delete by
+ actually attempting to delete the file or directory. As Windows clients can (and do) "back out" a
+ delete request by unsetting the "delete on close" bit Samba cannot delete the file immediately
+ on "open for delete" request as we cannot restore such a deleted file. With this parameter set to
+ true (the default) then smbd checks the file system permissions directly on "open for delete" and denies the
+ request without actually deleting the file if the file system permissions would seem to deny it.
+ This is not perfect, as it's possible a user could have deleted a file without Samba being able to
+ check the permissions correctly, but it is close enough to Windows semantics for mostly correct
+ behaviour. Samba will correctly check POSIX ACL semantics in this case.
+ </para>
+ <para>If this parameter is set to "false" Samba doesn't check permissions on "open for delete"
+ and allows the open. If the user doesn't have permission to delete the file this will only be
+ discovered at close time, which is too late for the Windows user tools to display an error message
+ to the user. The symptom of this is files that appear to have been deleted "magically" re-appearing
+ on a Windows explorer refersh. This is an extremely advanced protocol option which should not
+ need to be changed. This parameter was introduced in its final form in 3.0.21, an earlier version
+ with slightly different semantics was introduced in 3.0.20. That older version is not documented here.
+ </para>
+</description>
+<value type="default">True</value>
+</samba:parameter>