As root you can give any amount of read/write permission to a samba
client, which could in fact completely expose the Linux box to an
authenticated windows client. This may make sense in a very secure
environment. One drawback to using samba, though, is that it may break
some of the file ownership properties on the Linux box. For instance,
if you have a share defined as follows, all modified files will have
0774 permissions instead of default permissions:
---- share defined in /etc/smb.conf -----
[root]
path = /
force user = root
force group = root
read only = No
create mask = 0774
At 2/25/2001, Ben Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I guess what I was asking was that if one allowed write-permission via
>samba, on a [COMPLETE] linux filesystem, and this was compromised on a
>windows client, wouldn't that [COMPLETELY] compromise the linux box?
