[Samba] unix exts / wide links / symlinks

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 09:33:30AM +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 08:38:50AM +0200, Stefan Götz wrote:
> > > Sorry for that, but Samba just can't afford to be called
> > > insecure by default.
> > 
> > Absolutely - and I do very much respect the reasons for
> > that. So Linda and I are
> > suggesting a non-default option or option value called something like
> > "YesIWantToShootMyselfInTheFootAndWontComplainAboutItOnSlashdotSoTurnOnWideLinks"
> > instead of reverting to an insecure default. In our usage
> > scenarios, such a shot in the foot is something quite
> > desirable and useful.
> 
> If you asked me, I would support that.
> 
> insecure wide links and unix extensions = yes
> 
> or so. Now you have to convince Jeremy to also accept it :-)

Ok, I'm or with a "wide links = insecure" option, with
the man page expressing the opinion that enabling it is
insane :-).

But I'm not spending the time to code it up (but will
test and apply patches from people who do :-).

Jeremy.