Re: [Samba] PROPOSAL: Remove SWAT in Samba 4.1

2013-02-20 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 20/02/13 03:24, Gregory Sloop wrote: 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

Re: [Samba] PROPOSAL: Remove SWAT in Samba 4.1

2013-02-20 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 18.02.2013 01:02, schrieb Andrew Bartlett: As most of you would have noticed, we have now had 3 CVE-nominated security issues for SWAT in the past couple of years. At the same time, while I know many of our users use SWAT, we just don't have anybody to maintain it inside the Samba Team.

Re: [Samba] PROPOSAL: Remove SWAT in Samba 4.1

2013-02-20 Thread Andrew Bartlett
On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 08:29 +, Sebastian Arcus wrote: On 20/02/13 03:24, Gregory Sloop wrote: 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-

Re: [Samba] PROPOSAL: Remove SWAT in Samba 4.1

2013-02-20 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 20/02/13 10:57, Andrew Bartlett wrote: On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 08:29 +, Sebastian Arcus wrote: On 20/02/13 03:24, Gregory Sloop wrote: 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

Re: [Samba] PROPOSAL: Remove SWAT in Samba 4.1

2013-02-20 Thread Gregory Sloop
-SNIP- 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 SA Just curious what is the source of the smb.conf manual above. I think your question was answered in terms of S4 vs S3

Re: [Samba] PROPOSAL: Remove SWAT in Samba 4.1

2013-02-19 Thread Dale Schroeder
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. At the same time, while I know many of our users use SWAT, we just don't have anybody to maintain it inside the Samba Team. Kai

Re: [Samba] PROPOSAL: Remove SWAT in Samba 4.1

2013-02-19 Thread Gregory Sloop
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

[Samba] PROPOSAL: Remove SWAT in Samba 4.1

2013-02-17 Thread Andrew Bartlett
As most of you would have noticed, we have now had 3 CVE-nominated security issues for SWAT in the past couple of years. At the same time, while I know many of our users use SWAT, we just don't have anybody to maintain it inside the Samba Team. Kai has made a valiant effort to at least apply the

Re: [Samba] PROPOSAL: Remove SWAT in Samba 4.1

2013-02-17 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Andrew Bartlett abart...@samba.org 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. Has webmin kept up to date with the latest structural changes in smb.conf? I'll admit that I've

Re: [Samba] PROPOSAL: Remove SWAT in Samba 4.1

2013-02-17 Thread Andrew Bartlett
On Sun, 2013-02-17 at 20:52 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Andrew Bartlett abart...@samba.org 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. Has webmin kept up to date with

Re: [Samba] PROPOSAL: Remove SWAT in Samba 4.1

2013-02-17 Thread Raymond Lillard
I'm just a data point of one. My Samba history is as a user since before 2.0. Shortly into the 2.0.x series I was asked by locals (a point and click lot) to setup Swat so they could manage Samba. I did so and they still f'ed the configuration. That was and remains my only experience with

Re: [Samba] PROPOSAL: Remove SWAT in Samba 4.1

2013-02-17 Thread Rob Townley
This is why it is smart to use a dedicated Firefox profile for banking, another profile just for email, another profile for web browsing.And of course, another dedicated profile for internal systems only such as for managing dd-wrt, switches, iLO, DRAC, webcams, webmin and swat. Safer is to