DS> On 02/17/2013 6:02 PM, Andrew Bartlett wrote: >> As most of you would have noticed, we have now had 3 CVE-nominated >> security issues for SWAT in the past couple of years. >> -SNIP- >> >> Therefore, it was suggested on a private list that we just drop SWAT. I >> want to start a public discussion on that point, prompted by >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=700729 which reminds us >> why we didn't apply the specific CSRF hardening we applied in 4.0.2 to >> SWAT in the first place. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Andrew Bartlett
DS> I have yet to make the jump to Samba4, so I have not seen the version of DS> SWAT designed for it. DS> For me, the primary benefit of SWAT in Samba3 was the ability to use the DS> help link for any parameter to see what that parameter did, what the DS> default was, and what its proper syntax was. For reference, I ran "man DS> smb.conf". Viewing full screen, I pressed the "Page Down" key 34 times DS> and was still in the 1st third of the alphabetical listing of DS> parameters. It's no small wonder that I never used "man smb.conf" to DS> configure Samba. SWAT was my friend. DS> So, if Samba4 has anywhere near the number of parameters as Samba3, I DS> would be greatly disappointed to see SWAT go away entirely. An html DS> version of the samba-doc package that contained all parameters with DS> links to their definitions/descriptions would be a welcome and suitable DS> replacement. DS> Thanks, DS> Dale I'm working through smb.conf options now, and I see that the official Samba docs for the smb.conf file are v3 only. I've taken the liberty of cranking the smb.conf man file to html and I've added a link in the wiki to it. [I can't post full html to the Wiki and editing the smb.conf html conversion to "wiki-eese" will be way too time consuming and cumbersome. So, I've simply put it on my own web-server and linked to it. My apologies if this violates some commonly accepted protocol, but I needed it as much as anyone. I'm glad to send the file to whomever needs it and once it's up at samba.org, change the link to point there.] However, for anyone looking for a web version of the smb.conf for 4.0.3 - see this wiki page. http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Documentation_Links/samba4-smb.conf While for format isn't perfect, it's easier to search and navigate than the man page. -Greg -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
