[Samba] Automount homes via smb question

[Mike Ely]

On Nov 5, 2003, at 10:51 PM, Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:26:48PM -0800, Mike Ely wrote:
>>
>>>>> Also, we have the problem of
>>>>> special files over CIFS - your Win2k server probably will not like
>>>>> attemptes to create symbolic links.
>>>>>
>> Hmm.  I don't like where this leads... I'm thinking in particular of
>> /tmp... is there no CIFS interface to create windows "shortcuts" or 
>> are
>> those so very different from symlinks?
>
> They are - steve french was looking at coming up with come method to
> represent such 'special files', but the 'correct' semantics is rather
> unclear...
>
> (It's also an issue for Samba servers, as we block certian symlinks,
> in particlar the one to /tmp that kde makes on startup).
>
> Andrew Bartlett

Is this blocking in place for a particular security issue, or is there 
some kind of weird race condition where you have local apps talking to 
a local /tmp over a symlink that resides on a remote volume?  'Scuse my 
ignorance - I'm trying to understand some core issues here.

Mike

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