On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Jeff Layton <jlay...@samba.org> wrote: > Yes, we added a patch a while back to make it such that mount.cifs > would not allow itself to run as a setuid root program unless it that > check was compiled out. > > This was done due to a rather constant stream of "security issues" that > were brought about when people installed mount.cifs setuid root. Since > it had never been vetted for security, we really had no other choice to > communicate that installing it setuid root was unsafe.
Not the place for it so the inquiry is only rhetorical. How can you equate adding a patch preventing a sysadmin from using an app as designed to communicating? Communication is one thing, handcuffs are another. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
