[Samba] unix exts / wide links / symlinks

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 02:04:03PM -0400, Mike Leone wrote:
> Jeremy Allison had this to say:
>
>> 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 :-).
>
> So then this:
>
> "It is a big mistake to set the wide links Samba parameter to no in the  
> Samba configuration file /etc/smb.conf."
>
> <http://www.faqs.org/docs/securing/chap29sec287.html>
>
> should be completely ignored, I guess?
>
> I'm a bit new to Samba ....

Yep, out of date now I'm afraid.

Jeremy.