Jonathan,
Are you suggesting that a SMB exported symlink to /etc/shadow is somehow a bad thing ? :-)
Daniel
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From: Jonathan Buzzard <jonathan.buzz...@strath.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] SMB server on GPFS clients and Followsymlinks
Date: Wed, May 16, 2018 1:23 PM
On Tue, 2018-05-15 at 22:32 +0000, Christof Schmitt wrote:
> > I could use CES, but CES does not support follow-symlinks outside
> respective SMB export.
>
> Samba has the 'wide links' option, that we currently do not test and
> support as part of the mmsmb integration. You can always open a RFE
> and ask that we support this option in a future release.
>
Note that if unix extensions are on then you also need the "allow
insecure wide links" option, which is a pretty good hint as to why one
should steer several parsecs wide of using symlinks on SMB exports.
JAB.
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