password API needed, comments ...

[Gerald Carter]

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 13 May 1998, David Bannon wrote:
> 
> i do this all the time.
> 
> smb.conf:
> ...
> [applications]
> read only = yes
> 
> include = smb.conf.%U
> 
> smb.conf.lkcl:
> [applications]
> read only = no
> 
> [root_share]
> path = /
> 
> that gives me a new share and changes permissions on [applications] 
> from read-only to writeable.  for me only.  or i could do 
> include=smb.conf.%g and grant all administrators the same rights...

This is the equivalent of using the "valid users" parameter and "write
list".  Doesn't gain you anything really.  Simply a matter of
preference.



j-
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