[Samba] Support for multiple file streams?

simo idra at samba.org
Mon Jul 2 17:28:01 GMT 2007


On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 17:22 +0000, simo wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 10:19 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 05:09:54PM +0000, simo wrote:
> > > 
> > > The biggest problem is leaking streams from one user to another:
> > > userA delete fileA with streamA
> > > userB create fileB
> > > accidentally fileB inode == fileA
> > > userB has streamA data in fileB
> > 
> > That's not an in Samba issue - on delete
> > of fileA we also delete the stream directory
> > containing the inode name. Could be a problem
> > with UNIX tool access though. We need a generation
> > count or something similar....
> 
> Yes I was point out the problem of manipulating files from the user
                                                  this was UNIX--^^^^
> side, not the samba side.
> Keeping the same ACL on the streams that you have on the original files
> may mitigate the problem a lot though.

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Simo Sorce
Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer
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