Browse list problem sorted (PR#7918)

Dirk De Wachter Dirk.DeWachter at rug.ac.be
Mon Aug 24 09:11:15 GMT 1998


> > nope. you're right the locks' parent directory needs to be readable too. 
> 
> so does / and /usr and /var and ... and
> 
> how far do we go?
> 
> maybe we need a validate_path(char *, mode_t mode) function that
> checks things all the way up?
Is it possible within Samba to try to do a chdir as user "guest" and 
look at the result code to detect this kind of problem?

Dirk
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