Samba Q?

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Thu Oct 25 00:08:41 UTC 2007


Gordon Messmer wrote:
>

> Since Linux doesn't protect command line arguments or environment 
> variables from other users, I recommend using the credentials file.  It 
> should be owned by root, and mode 0400.  Even if you're on a single user 
> system now, this is a good habit to develop.
> 

it needs to be accessible to the user doing the mount: having it 
otherwise might be a security risk.

That often implies ownership by the user, but it could be owned by a 
group with several members, depending on context:
Accounts folk can access \\win2k3\accounts.






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Cheers
John

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