NULL sessions - Listing shares anonymously - restrict anonymous

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 15:08, Tim Potter wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 08:50:47PM -0500, Yannick Mercier wrote:
> 
> >     I am running 2.2.5 and I would like to know if the
> > "restrict anonymous" as been implemented correctly, as it was supposed
> > to behave from the start, in order to deny
> > ALL anonymous connections as stated in the man :
> > "When restrict anonymous is yes, all anonymous connections are denied no
> > matter what they are for."
> 
> In the Samba 2.2 branch the 'restrict anonymous' parameter behaves as
> per the manual page.  It's broken and unlikely to be fixed.
> 
> > Ive been reading some dev mailing lists and someone said that there would be
> > 0, 1 , 2 as
> > possible values to the "restrict anonymous" option, as it been done yet ?
> 
> In the Samba HEAD and 3.0 branches however the parameter behaves more
> like the RestrictAnonymous registry setting.  Only 'restrict anonymous = 1' 
> is currently supported though.

I'm going to do some research, and figure out exactly what 'restrict
anonymous = 2' does.  If it denies all guest logins, then it is trivial
to implement.

Andrew Bartlett

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