URGENT: REDHAT 6.1 STORES SAMBA PRIVATE FILES IN /etc

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at samba.org
Tue Dec 21 18:32:00 GMT 1999


On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Volker Lendecke wrote:

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> > 1) you CANNOT put smbpasswd in /etc.
> 
> SuSE does this as well. It was partly my decision. For a standard
> installation I did not want to clobber the directories. I really do
> not see any further security benefit if smbpasswd is put somewhere
> else. People who play with permissions in /etc/ have to know what they
> do.

*sigh*.  true.


> The standard installation does it just fine, and if you chmod
> anything there, you are on your own.

do we want to be responsible for not making that really clear to people
(particularly those who are new to linux)?



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