[Samba] samba share is symlink, symlink gets updated, samba doesn't catch the change

BJ Quinn bjquinn at seidal.com
Tue Feb 3 09:22:35 MST 2015


>I guess it is some kind of protection agains symlink attacks. If a share 
>points directly to a symlink, the symlink is expanded on startup to 
>avoid security issues if it gets modified.

This makes sense, but is there some way to override it?  Or, at least I'd think a reload
would expand the symlink again, but it doesnt.


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