Azure Files for Linux - Shared Non-Root Access
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Recently, one of my co-workers asked whether anyone had experience accessing Azure Files from Linux but without using root or wide open permissions. After looking at the documentation as well as the connect tab in the portal, neither mounted the Azure Files instance with permissions outside of root only access or 0777. After a bit of testing, this is what I developed relative to restricting access to the mounted files instance to a specific group (along with creating test users and groups to demonstrate it).…