Samba 2.0.3 on OpenVMS

[John E. Malmberg]

Dr. Guilherme Regis wrote:

> Dear John Malmberg
>
> I have found that, from a regular account, or even from
> GUEST account, there is an error while accessing SAMBA_CRTL,
> as follows:
>
> From VAX, LGEMEDIATO/GUESS account:
>
> $ smbclient "-L" nostromo.physics
> %DCL-W-ACTIMAGE, error activating image SAMBA_CRTL
> -CLI-E-IMGNAME, image file BSUHEP$DKA100:[SAMBA.][BIN]DECC_CRTL.EXE;
> -RMS-E-PRV, insufficient privilege or file protection violation
>
> That is weird because, as far as I know, I have the correct definitions:
>
>    "SAMBA_EXE" = "SAMBA_ROOT:[BIN.VAX]" (LNM$SYSTEM_TABLE)
>         = "SAMBA_ROOT:[BIN]"
>
>     SMBCLIENT == "$samba_exe:smbclient.exe"
>
> I thought @INSTALL and @LINK would take care of these privilege 
> issues. What is wrong here ?


The symptoms are indicating that the DECC_CRTL.EXE is not protected with 
world execute access.

It is not a privilege issue, it is a file protection issue.

As I have not used the 2.0.3 release, I do not know why the protection 
ended up wrong for the file.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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