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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 20:55:55 -0700
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Mikhail Teterin wrote:
] wrote on 22 May (in article <31A2A83D.67A89A35@lambert.org>):
] =] Since it is sitting in an office full of Windows-for- Workgroup
] =] and Win95 machines, having ksmbfs is a big plus.
] =
] =This one I don't understand -- unless you are using the machine
] =as a single user box, or don't care that every Linux user is
] =using a single set of credentials to access the SMB servers,
] =and therefore you have no user-level access controls.
]
] Terry, please. Of course it is a "single user box", that's what
] everyone has in the office this days. NT has this problem as well,
] yet people install telnet-servers on it, and do not care, that
] A may log-in remotely, and access drives mounted by B.
I don't. I care.
] Why don't you tell us where are those patches/sources for FreeBSD
] mount_smb (or whatever it is), so that one can have it if he/she
] wants it?
On a machine at WSU. I was working for Novell/USG at the time;
they would need to be redone.
Taking the NFS client LKM and the SMBClient from the SAMBA
distribution as a starting point, it wouldn't take you more
than a week to do the job yourself. Personally, I do not want
to promote this type of security-compromised setup.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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