[gpfsug-discuss] SMB server on GPFS clients and Followsymlinks

Jonathan Buzzard jonathan.buzzard at strath.ac.uk
Thu May 17 16:31:47 BST 2018


On Wed, 2018-05-16 at 12:37 +0000, Daniel Kidger wrote:
> Jonathan,
>  
> Are you suggesting that a SMB exported symlink to /etc/shadow is
> somehow a bad thing ? :-)
> 

The irony is that people are busy complaining about not being able to
update their kernels for security reasons while someone else is
complaining about not being able to do what can only be described in
2018 as very bad practice.

The right answer IMHO is to forget about symlinks being followed server
side and take the opportunity that migrating it all to GPFS gives you
to re-architect your storage so they are no longer needed.

JAB.

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