Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 18:49 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: >> On Friday 09 March 2007, Craig White wrote: >>> You really shouldn't be using samba/cifs sharing on your LAN since you >>> have all Linux systems but you get away with it because you always run >>> as root and it's clear that your methodology is to remove all security >>> restrictions that are in your way. >> Now that statement really puzzles me. I run samba for the lan, not only >> windows to linux to windows, but also linux to linux. I don't run as root, >> and I use selinux. >> >> Would you like to amplify your statement? > ---- > sure - a smbfs/cifs mount pretty much discards the concept of posix > users and doesn't understand Posix attributes, has no concept of the > case in file names and finally doesn't permit executables. > Cifs supports UNIX extensions. They both support mixed case. It depends on the options you pick. > > Take a Linux system... > > touch 'my file.txt' > touch 'My File.txt' > > do the same thing on Windows/samba mount > It again depends on the settings you use in Samba. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
