Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 14:36:59 -0700 From: Jeremy Allison <jallison@whistle.com> To: lkcl@regent.push.net Subject: Re: samba run-time modification to smb.conf files
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.
Writing to smb.conf is a security *nightmare* :-).
Also our remote admin is *much* better than NT
(telnetd ships as standard with all UNIXs :-) so
we may not need this right now.
Cheers,
Jeremy.
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