Samba 2.0.9 release - SECURITY FIX

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Fri May 11 12:25:02 GMT 2001


Kenichi Okuyama wrote:
> ...
> 3) In 'samba/examples/' of both 2.2.0 and 2.0.*, there are many
>   smb.conf examples. And in them, you give (with commented out
>   though) example of how to share /tmp among peoples.
>   Won't this become problem? I mean, letting people open the
>   file inside /tmp directory do have chance of stepping onto
>   other people's temporary files, won't we?

Not as long as the "sticky" bit is properly set on the share and
the SAMBA usernames map to unique UNIX usernames...

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