Re: samba run-time modification to smb.conf files

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (lkcl@regent.push.net)
Fri, 24 Apr 1998 22:17:36 +0000 (GMT)

Date:	Fri, 24 Apr 1998 22:17:36 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@regent.push.net>
To:	Jeremy Allison <jallison@whistle.com>
Subject: Re: samba run-time modification to smb.conf files
In-Reply-To: <354105FB.2D857063@whistle.com>

On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> >
> > there are numerous dce/rpc "set" calls. is it reasonable to support
> > these?
> >
> > if so, we will need to add the capability (currently only found in swat)
> > to smbd to write to smb.conf files. this is one reason why i suggested
> > that swat (or swat v2) go "via" a samba daemon instead of editing smb.conf
> > files direct.
> >
>
> Hmmmmmm. Can we think about this and not rush in with
> code yet.

yep.

> Writing to smb.conf is a security *nightmare* :-).

it's also difficult to write to multiple smb.confs.

> Also our remote admin is *much* better than NT
> (telnetd ships as standard with all UNIXs :-) so
> we may not need this right now.

true.