Support for file sharing over SMB/NFS

Matthias Hölzer-Klüpfel mhk at kde.org
Tue Apr 16 21:34:37 BST 2002


On Tuesday 16 April 2002 20:57, David Faure wrote:

> The backend is a perl script, "fileshareset", suid-root, which takes care
> of updating the appropriate files (typically /etc/exports and smb.conf)
> when adding/removing shared directories, and HUPing smbd to get it
> to re-read the config. It can also list the currently shared directories.

A setuid perl script? Do you believe this will pass any kind of security 
audit?


Bye,
Matthias.





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