[PATCH] Allow reparse points to be created/read/removed over SMB2 from smbclient.

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 09:34:10AM -0700, Daniel Fussell via samba-technical wrote:
> On 11/29/2017 04:22 PM, Jeremy Allison via samba-technical wrote:
> > Latest part of my quest to get a working test environment
> > for reparse points so I can implement them in smbd.
> 
> Jacob Holtom and I have been working on the smbd symlink reparse point
> code as well, changing it to properly return the symlink error/reparse
> responses instead of just adding the reparse tag.
> 
> Our target environment does not support extended attributes.  We've been
> talking about using the UNIX symlink target as the link-target when the
> follow symlinks option is enabled.  Does anyone have any objections?

Yes, I don't want smbd creating UNIX symlinks anymore.

This has been and continues to be a big security hole.

I only want reparse points stored in EA's.

Jeremy.