State of unix extensions and symlink support

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Feb 2 18:31:39 UTC 2024


On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 06:58:13PM +0100, lukaro via samba-technical wrote:
>Thanks for your replies. I have already heard of security concerns, but unfortunately I didn't understand these yet. If the symlinks are created as symlinks on the server and also returned to the client as symlinks, the client can't access any files it doesn't have access to, even if these are referenced by symlinks. Or am I missing something?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BvA7AqAY10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BiE7zXdjzY



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