r31dmaeu@netwman.RZ.UniBw-Muenchen.de wrote:>
> The document "Doing the NIS/NT Samba" on Linux World says that
the file
> /usr/local/samba/private/MACHINE.SID should be owned by root and read-only
> for all other users.
>
> The document "ENCRYPTION.txt" says that this directory should be
owned by
> root and should have the permission 500. Therefore the file MACHINE.SID
> located
> in this directory will only be readable by the owner: root. Right ?
>
> What is wrong ?
It's not really security-sensitive read information,
but it is security sensitive write information.
The text in ENCRYPTION.txt is a bit paranoid.
I'll fix it.
Jeremy Allison,
Samba Team.
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