samba run-time modification to smb.conf files

[Jeremy Allison]

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
> there are numerous dce/rpc "set" calls.  is it reasonable to support
> these?
> 
> if so, we will need to add the capability (currently only found in swat)
> to smbd to write to smb.conf files.  this is one reason why i suggested
> that swat (or swat v2) go "via" a samba daemon instead of editing smb.conf
> files direct.
> 

Hmmmmmm. Can we think about this and not rush in with
code yet.

Writing to smb.conf is a security *nightmare* :-).

Also our remote admin is *much* better than NT
(telnetd ships as standard with all UNIXs :-) so
we may not need this right now.

Cheers,

	Jeremy.

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