Quibble re faq errors

Jeremy Allison jallison at cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Mon Nov 9 17:47:56 GMT 1998


David Collier-Brown wrote:
> 
>         We need a way to say that security = share is old, requires
>         a dummy account per share, and shared accounts are undesirable
>         in Unix. The latter **can** raise security concerns. Use
>         security = user to match the implicit Unix security model.
>         Then footnote the reason.
> 

Err - I think I've already done that for Samba2.0 by
making the default security=user.

I didn't do that lightly (knowing the number of emails
we'll get complaining that people can't log on any more
when the install Samba2.0 over Samba1.9.18 :-).

Jeremy.

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