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authorAndrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>2012-02-03 18:03:10 +1100
committerAndrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>2012-03-04 23:33:05 +0100
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s3-auth: Remove security=share (depricated since 3.6).
This patch removes security=share, which Samba implemented by matching the per-share password provided by the client in the Tree Connect with a selection of usernames supplied by the client, the smb.conf or guessed from the environment. The rationale for the removal is that for the bulk of security=share users, we just we need a very simple way to run a 'trust the network' Samba server, where users mark shares as guest ok. This is still supported, and the smb.conf options are documented at https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Public_Samba_Server At the same time, this closes the door on one of the most arcane areas of Samba authentication. Naturally, full user-name/password authentication remain available in security=user and above. This includes documentation updates for username and only user, which now only do a small amount of what they used to do. Andrew Bartlett -------------- / \ / REST \ / IN \ / PEACE \ / \ | SEC_SHARE | | security=share | | | | | | 5 March | | | | 2012 | *| * * * | * _________)/\\_//(\/(/\)/\//\/\///|_)_______
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<synonym>user</synonym>
<synonym>users</synonym>
<description>
- <para>Multiple users may be specified in a comma-delimited
- list, in which case the supplied password will be tested against
- each username in turn (left to right).</para>
-
- <para>The deprecated <parameter moreinfo="none">username</parameter> line is needed only when
- the PC is unable to supply its own username. This is the case
- for the COREPLUS protocol or where your users have different WfWg
- usernames to UNIX usernames. In both these cases you may also be
- better using the \\server\share%user syntax instead.</para>
-
- <para>The <parameter moreinfo="none">username</parameter> line is not a great
- solution in many cases as it means Samba will try to validate
- the supplied password against each of the usernames in the
- <parameter moreinfo="none">username</parameter> line in turn. This is slow and
- a bad idea for lots of users in case of duplicate passwords.
- You may get timeouts or security breaches using this parameter
- unwisely.</para>
-
- <para>Samba relies on the underlying UNIX security. This
- parameter does not restrict who can login, it just offers hints
- to the Samba server as to what usernames might correspond to the
- supplied password. Users can login as whoever they please and
- they will be able to do no more damage than if they started a
- telnet session. The daemon runs as the user that they log in as,
- so they cannot do anything that user cannot do.</para>
-
<para>To restrict a service to a particular set of users you
can use the <smbconfoption name="valid users"/> parameter.</para>
- <para>If any of the usernames begin with a '@' then the name
- will be looked up first in the NIS netgroups list (if Samba
- is compiled with netgroup support), followed by a lookup in
- the UNIX groups database and will expand to a list of all users
- in the group of that name.</para>
-
- <para>If any of the usernames begin with a '+' then the name
- will be looked up only in the UNIX groups database and will
- expand to a list of all users in the group of that name.</para>
-
- <para>If any of the usernames begin with a '&amp;' then the name
- will be looked up only in the NIS netgroups database (if Samba
- is compiled with netgroup support) and will expand to a list
- of all users in the netgroup group of that name.</para>
+ <para>This parameter is deprecated</para>
- <para>Note that searching though a groups database can take
- quite some time, and some clients may time out during the
- search.</para>
+ <para>However, it currently operates only in conjunction with
+ <smbconfoption name="only user"/>. The supported way to restrict
+ a service to a particular set of users is the
+ <smbconfoption name="valid users"/> parameter.</para>
- <para>See the section <link linkend="VALIDATIONSECT">NOTE ABOUT
- USERNAME/PASSWORD VALIDATION</link> for more information on how
- this parameter determines access to the services.</para>
</description>
<value type="default"><comment>The guest account if a guest service,