Security model in samba-2

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at switchboard.net
Fri Sep 4 15:59:40 GMT 1998


> 	I should comment that Samba's security model
> 	``fits inside'' an orange book categoey and level.
> 
> 	A colleague and I described samba security as three-level,
> 	but not in the ``secret" -vs- "top secret" sense
> 	of levels: more like
> 		1) host level -- what machine can connect
> 		2) Service-level -- per-share limitations
> 		3) user-level -- limitations on particular users.
> 	all sitting on top of (inside of) normal Unix 
> 	security.

because you can include files inline using any %sub macro, you can do
groups, caller's name, calling name etc etc.  lots.



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