svn commit: samba r23047 - in branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/scripting/ejs: .

Rafal Szczesniak mimir at samba.org
Tue May 22 06:43:45 GMT 2007


On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 04:32:30PM +1000, tridge at samba.org wrote:
> Rafal,
> 
>  > Well, yes, you're right. I messed the order :) But it should be ok,
>  > to reverse the order of inclusion - defined paths first, local dir
>  > second. This would allow not to substitue commonly used include files
>  > and still be able to include something local.
> 
> no, it's not OK. It's _never_ ok.
> 
> Imagine that Samba is installed in /net/some_nfs/drive/samba and nfs
> is down. What happens then? smbstatus then goes to '.' and the
> security hole is back.
> 
> Please just revert the patch. There is no way we should ever be
> looking in '.' for scripts or libraries of any kind.

ok, you're right. My foolish mistake. It's reverted now.
My life is more complicated back again ;-)


cheers,
-- 
Rafal Szczesniak
Samba Team member  http://www.samba.org

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