[PATCH] Harden Samba module functions

Andreas Schneider asn at samba.org
Wed May 31 07:32:43 UTC 2017


On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 23:06:35 CEST Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 04:08:32PM +0200, Andreas Schneider via samba-
technical wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > the attached patch hardens the samba module functions and adds tests.
> > 
> > 
> > Please review.
> 
> Reviewing now...
> 
> Can we eventually remove the capability to load any modules by
> an absolute path altogether, and insist this is only done from
> inside our modules directories ?
> 
> This will break (a few I'm guessing) existing smb.conf files,
> so we should document and make the change for the next major
> release if we're going to do this.

Yes, why not. I would push the current patchset and start working from there 
...


	Andreas

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