dfree behaviour [Was: Re: Broken "dfree command" in Samba 2.0.5a]

[Cliff Green]

On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, David Lee enscribed thusly:

DL>On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Colin Dean wrote:
DL>
DL>> Summary:
DL>> 
DL>> The "dfree command" option in smb.conf is ignored by Samba 2.0.5a,
DL>> despite being documented in "man smb.conf".
DL>> 
DL>> Details:
DL>> [...]

[munch]

DL>Also, as Samba becomes increasingly pre-packaged (RPM etc.), it becomes
DL>increasingly valuable to remove compile-time options, so that a maximally
DL>flexible binary can be produced.  So in the case of "--with-quotas", the
DL>default should now be to include it, using a parameter to enable it.

The only problem with this is that --with-quotas is now broken (as of
2.0.6) on an unknown number of platforms.  There's been a small discussion
on comp.protocols.smb to the effect that on Digital Unix 4.0d and HPUX
10.20, lib/util_sec.c needs to be edited to allow quotas to function
(removing the line: "set_effective_uid(saved_euid);"  from function
restore_re_uid).  The problem is, although this works, none of the
participants of that discussion are sure if this introduces another
(security) problem.

Any comments?

c
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