[Samba] Follow symlinks vs bind-mount

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Wed Apr 22 14:38:55 UTC 2020



Am 22.04.20 um 15:43 schrieb Hal Vaughan via samba:
> A while back I got some good advice about using bind-mount on my Linux server to include directories outside my Samba shares.  It had been years since I set up a server and forgot about "follow symlinks" and stumbled on that yesterday.
> 
> Is there a reason for using one of these over the other one?

"follow symlinks" and friends have a long history of security issues for
all sort of services, not only samba



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