smbwall

[Andrew Bartlett]

Toomas Soome wrote:
> 
> Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 
> > Also, I feel that the /dev/smb/? namespace is a good one - it mirrors
> > FTPs utmp semantics and allows the admin to quickly distinguish between
> > SSH/telnet logins and Samba connections.  If 'write' and 'wall'
> > functionality is desired, I think that some kind of daemon listening on
> > these 'terminals' (actually pipes in a dir) is the desirable solution.
> 
> 100% agree. just take an look on this finger output:
> 
> Kasutaja     Nimi                  Terminal Eemal   Millal     Kust
> lehes        Leho Lehes            smb/1       1 31.01 20:26
> tembu.it.da.ut.
> raivo        Raivo Hirmo           pts/9   21:01 30.01 11:38
> tamm.ebc.ee
> server       Listserver account   *pts/3   13:30 01.02 22:46
> erasmus.cs.ut.e
> 
> it's plain and clear...

Nicely illustrated!

> > It should be noted that none of this actually requires modification to
> > Samba - even now!.  If you want to make this happen - simply write a
> > daemon that listens on /dev/smb/0 - /dev/smb/x (where x is the maximum
> > number of connections you expect to receive).  It can include its own
> > code to read sessionid.tdb and the message sending code to bug the
> > client with it.
> >
> 
> this daemon could even be the smbd itself - listening on its own
> entries, for example.

Why?  smbd is sufficiently plump as it is - this is really something
that can (and should) be done externally.

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Andrew Bartlett                                 abartlet at pcug.org.au
Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team  abartlet at samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
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