samba ver 2 beta 1 (gaping wide bug)

[Juan Carlos Castro y Castro]

Geez! This is a MAJOR Windows security bug! Security at the server shouldn't depend
on clients being "nice". This is what happens when a protocol is treated as
proprietary.

Mark Deneen wrote:

> Please excuse me if this has been covered, but I just noticed something odd
> with samba 2 beta 1.  If I use smbclient to connect to a passworded resource on
> a win machine (I've tried it with 98/95) and I just hit enter for the password,
> it lets me in.  No questions asked.  So, I pretty much have unlimited read
> access to stuff I should not be able to get to.
>
> Best Regards.
>
> If this is the wrong list to send this to, please direct me in the right path.
> ---
> Mark Deneen
> deneen at bucknell.edu ICQ: 333068
> http://www.students.bucknell.edu/deneen
>
> revolutionary, adj.:
>         Repackaged.



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