samba run-time modification to smb.conf files

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> 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.

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

it's also difficult to write to multiple smb.confs.
 
> Also our remote admin is *much* better than NT
> (telnetd ships as standard with all UNIXs :-) so
> we may not need this right now.

true.