Quibble re faq errors
David Collier-Brown
davecb at Canada.Sun.COM
Mon Nov 9 18:01:31 GMT 1998
Jeremy Allison wrote:
>
> 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.
In the sense that people now get the right code (;-))
The question was really about the truthfullness of
one of the docs...
> 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 :-).
Hmmn. An obvious approach might be to emit a warning
from testparm, and then arrange for anyone doing an update
install to **run** testparm. The latter is easy to do
if you're using "make update" or rpm or the like, hard
otherwise.
--daveid (who's been promising himself he's going to spend
some time on analysis of error messages for months) c-b
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