[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#443230: Bug#443230: Bug#443230: Enable net usershare

Jérémie Tarot jeremie.tarot at free.fr
Fri Sep 21 11:54:20 UTC 2007


Hi,

Christian Perrier a écrit :
> Quoting Jérémie:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Mathias Gug a écrit :
>>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 10:50:01PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
>>>> A first concern comes with the dedicated group name. Should we use
>>>> "smbshare" and then still advertise that obsolete acronym (SMB) which
>>>> is however known by nearly everybody?
>>>>
>> Does this really have to be hardcoded ?
> 
> If we create the system group in the package's postinst, yes. We have
> to choose a group name.
> 
>>> Another proposal is to use a group named fileshare, that could be used
>>> to define a list of users that are allowed to define shared directories
>>> on the network (via samba, nfs, ftp or any other protocol).
>> +1
> 
> 
> That'd needs some discussion on -devel first, then.
> 

AFAIC, this sounds as a reasonable default, as far as it stays 
customizable on a per file service basis

My 2 €cts
JT





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