[Samba] unix exts / wide links / symlinks

[Brother Railgun of Reason]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 11:25:03AM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 01:58:58PM -0500, Brother Railgun of Reason wrote:
> 
> > This can be interpreted either of two ways.  Do you mean that you think 
> > users should not be able to *enable* following wide symlinks (which I 
> > understand to mean symbolic links whose target is located outside the 
> > share), or should not be able to *disable* it?
> 
> Users should not be able to enable following wide symlinks
> if "unix extensions = yes" (which means that symlinks can
> be dynamically created by clients).
> 
> That's the basis of the security problem.
> 
> If you want to allow both following wide symlinks
> and arbitrary client creation of symlinks then
> you need to change the code and recompile, as
> the combination is inherently unsafe.


Ahhh.  That makes sense.  I didn't know there was a capability for 
Windows clients to be able to create Unix symlinks on a Samba share.


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