Alan.M.Wright wrote:
> I wouldn't expect you to deal with PSARC for SMB cases (we'll
> take care of that) but that may not be the main hurdle.  If the case
> presents sufficient guarantees of "secure by default", it should be
> okay.

And I certainly wouldn't suggest you enable guest access by default.

> The main problem I foresee is handling the exclusion of null sessions
> from the Everyone group or the POSIX 'other' class in Solaris.  Null
> sessions were re-enabled in Windows XP/2003 along with a change
> to the Everyone group - to include only Authenticated Users by
> default.  AnonymousLogon is only granted access to files by changing
> the EveryoneIncludesAnonymous registry value or explicitly adding
> ACEs to allow AnonymousLogon in ACLs.
> 
> The Solaris CIFS service doesn't do file level access checks; access
> checking is performed by the underlying file system.  So we'd need
> to ensure that AnonymousLogon didn't get 'other' permissions by
> default.  We need some time to think about how we'd solve this problem.

It would be nice if you could control things at that level; I don't
know whether Solaris ACLs support that.  But I think it wouldn't be
too surprising to people that files readable by "other" can be read
by anyone who can access the exported filesystem.

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