BUG: Wide Links - does not work as documented
Peter Polkinghorne
Peter.Polkinghorne at brunel.ac.uk
Fri Apr 14 14:01:49 GMT 2000
Having raised this issue, apologies for having rather lost track - pressure
of other bits of work.
Jeremy Allison said:
> They are a *convenience* - and I believe the docs say so.
I do not think so - merely says (2.0.6) for wide links in smb.conf(5):
This parameter controls whether or not links in the
UNIX file system may be followed by the server. Links
that point to areas within the directory tree exported
by the server are always allowed; this parameter con-
trols access only to areas that are outside the direc-
tory tree being exported.
Note that setting this parameter can have a negative
effect on your server performance due to the extra sys-
tem calls that Samba has to do in order to perform the
link checks.
Alas the last paragraph did not even prove too true - the resource usage on
our most heavilly used server did not noticeably change.
I to be honest was not too concerned about the security since the users would
be accessing files at their own priviledge level (ie themselves) and that
would not be an issue for us - though for others that might not be the case.
Still I am happy with revised documentation for 2.0.7 and if Jani provides a
suitable patch great!
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