Jeremy Allison wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:45:29PM +0100, Michael Adam wrote: > > > > When discussing this with Volker today, he had a different idea: > > One could implement a trans2 impersonate call in samba (as a new > > call in the unix extensions) that could be used to transfer the > > session established by the privileged user (root, say) to a > > different user specified as an argument to the call -- without > > the need to give credentials! Then this call could be used in > > the multi user mount scenario: when uid 1000 accesse the cifs > > mount then the root-dispatcher mount would create a new session > > initially as root and issue an impersonate call to user 1000 > > directly afterwards. > > > > Wouldn't that be something worth considering? > > This world work, but protocol cleanliness-wise it's > *really* horrible :-). Agreed. :-)
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