Patch: Allow unprivileged processes to read registry

[Volker Lendecke]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 07:39:28AM +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> Others have commented that this is not ok. The "real"
> solution would be to read the registry via RPC, potentially
> over a local unix-domain socket. This would be served by a
> light-weight small daemon. I know that this is a lot of work
> and might be frustrating for you, but that way we can ensure
> that no DoS happens and no unprivileged access can happen.

Next alternative: Every change to the registry based
smb.conf triggers a r/o copy in normal text format
somewhere.

Volker

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