libsmbclient and browsing NT and Win9X workgroups:Evidence of bad things

Jeremy Allison jeremy at valinux.com
Thu Feb 15 23:40:49 GMT 2001


Richard Sharpe wrote:
> 
> Hmmmm, if nmbd is not running when the user does an smbc_init, things are
> not likely to be reliable ... so we must start nmbd, which means that I
> need an SUID wrapper to start nmbd.

*Anything* SUID is bad. Is there another way ? It took
great effort but we finally got rid of SUID on smbpasswd.....

Jeremy.

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