Access Controls for Swat ?

Jeremy Allison jallison at cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Thu Dec 10 02:30:03 GMT 1998


Andrew Tridgell wrote:
> 
> > Ok, so there is no way to select which users can access it ?  It would
> > appear that anyone with an account/password on the samba/swat server can
> > access swat ?
> 
> one method is to use the unix permissions on smb.conf to deny them
> access. If they can't read smb.conf then they can't do much in SWAT.
> 
> maybe we should also make SWAT obey the global "valid users" and
> "invalid users" options? Jeremy, what do you think?

It makes sense to me. But I was the person who wanted
to restrict it to people who have write access to smb.conf
so what do I know :-) :-).

Jeremy.

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