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<div dir="ltr" >Are you suggesting that a SMB exported symlink to /etc/shadow is somehow a bad thing ? :-)</div>
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<blockquote data-history-content-modified="1" dir="ltr" style="border-left:solid #aaaaaa 2px; margin-left:5px; padding-left:5px; direction:ltr; margin-right:0px" >----- Original message -----<br>From: Jonathan Buzzard <jonathan.buzzard@strath.ac.uk><br>Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org<br>To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org><br>Cc:<br>Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] SMB server on GPFS clients and Followsymlinks<br>Date: Wed, May 16, 2018 1:23 PM<br>
<div><font face="Default Monospace,Courier New,Courier,monospace" size="2" >On Tue, 2018-05-15 at 22:32 +0000, Christof Schmitt wrote:<br>> > I could use CES, but CES does not support follow-symlinks outside<br>> respective SMB export.<br>> <br>> Samba has the 'wide links' option, that we currently do not test and<br>> support as part of the mmsmb integration. You can always open a RFE<br>> and ask that we support this option in a future release.<br>> <br><br>Note that if unix extensions are on then you also need the "allow<br>insecure wide links" option, which is a pretty good hint as to why one<br>should steer several parsecs wide of using symlinks on SMB exports.<br><br>JAB.<br><br>--<br>Jonathan A. Buzzard Tel: +44141-5483420<br>HPC System Administrator, ARCHIE-WeSt.<br>University of Strathclyde, John Anderson Building, Glasgow. G4 0NG<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<br><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss" target="_blank">http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</a></font><br> </div></blockquote>
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