Comment 69 for bug 32067
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| Simon Ruggier (simon80) wrote Re: [Bug 32067] Re: the security parameter must be set to share, not user, in smb.conf - Smb/Gnome sharing broken | #69 |
On 2/1/08, Giovanni Bajo <email address hidden> wrote:
> I'm happy about this, and I am happy if you say "look, there is this other
> solution which achieves the same usability but it is much more secure". I am
> failing to see any alternative proposal at this point (and I'm failing to
> see why security=share is unsecure as I said before, but that is due my
> ignorance).
As far as I can tell, it's not insecure, it's just a voluntary choice
by the user to not require any credentials from people accessing the
share, which what many users expect (this is also why this discussion
has heated up). Security is a completely moot topic here if the
problem is that shares can be accessed by Ubuntu machines, but not
Windows XP ones.