valid users again
Keith Farrar
farrar at parc.com
Mon Aug 7 00:49:33 GMT 2006
The option is useful for shares beyond home directories. We have some
shared project shares and document distribution shares (e.g. budget
reports) which should be visible to a small subset of the authenticated
users in a domain.
Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>
> I always thought this was a weird option, prone to breakage. Why not
> add a 'private homedirs' option, which could even be on by default
> (getting rid of the magic 'games' share people stumble over, that this
> configuration is designed to control).
>
> That option would not be prone to string configuration, but just to 'on
> session setup, when we did a getpwnam() on this user, what home
> directory did we get'.
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
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