On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 04:34:30PM -0400, Rohit Kumar Mehta wrote: > Hi guys, I know Jon Newbigin made a post about this quite a while back > > http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2002-December/026141.html > > and there was some discussion of a security risk. > > We are using the patch in Samba 2.2.9 in order make a link from smbfs > mounted > /home/user/.gnome -> /tmp/username/.gnome (or somesuch gnomism) > > Does anyone know the status of this in Samba 3? I could not find a > working patch, > so I have disabled the ensure_link_is_safe function in smbd/trans2.c > manually, > by inserting a return 0 before some logic. Since I am not very familiar > with the > code, I am not comfortable with this in our production environment. > This seems to > enable us to do what we want for the time being. (migrate from Win2K DC > / Samba 2.2.9 > exported home directories to Win2K3 ADS / Samba 3.0.4 exported home > directories) > > I would grateful for any advice or information on this matter.
Funny how these things go :-). I'm currently working on this exact issue in the Samba 3.0.x codebase - UNIX symlinks will be much better supported in the 3.0.5 release. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
