[Samba] NULL sessions - Listing shares anonymously - restrict anonymous

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 12:44, Yannick Mercier wrote:
> Hi,
>     I am running 2.2.5 and I would like to know if the
> "restrict anonymous" as been implemented correctly, as it was supposed
> to behave from the start, in order to deny
> ALL anonymous connections as stated in the man :
> "When restrict anonymous is yes, all anonymous connections are denied no
> matter what they are for."
> 
> Ive been reading some dev mailing lists and someone said that there would be
> 0, 1 , 2 as
> possible values to the "restrict anonymous" option, as it been done yet ?

In Samba 3.0 we now have support for this new mode (0, 1 and 2 are now
implemented), where 'restrict anonymous' provides a security benefit. 

 The current 2.2 implementation is unfortunately named, and was designed
to prevent changes to %U in smb.conf macros.  

Andrew Bartlett

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