Nicolas Williams' source environment variables
Greg Dickie
greg at discreet.com
Wed Feb 2 14:45:32 GMT 2000
I like this. :-)
Greg
On 02-Feb-00 Dan Kaminsky wrote:
> Rather than turning smb.conf into YASL(Yet Another Scripting Language),
> perhaps it'd be better to keep it hook based, but with a twist:
>
> Presently, we include outside files. Why not allow inclusion based upon
> outside executables? We can use environment variables to pass all of
> Samba's variables into the outside process, and with almost every existing
> scripting language able to parse environment variables, we automatically
> become compatible with whatever scripting language the user posseses.
>
> Include Exec would take two forms:
>
> 1) include exec = <executable which outputs valid smb.conf parameters>
> 2) parameter = `cat /etc/parameter`
>
>#2 allows for cheap one liner perl scripts to do their work.
>
> Problems? Security's an issue, but I don't see all that much more of a
> threat than we already have...
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Yours Truly,
>
> Dan Kaminsky
> DoxPara Research
> http://www.doxpara.com
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