Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 22:02:27 +0100 From: Mark Drayton <mark.drayton@4thwave.co.uk> To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nfs mounts / su / yp Message-ID: <20010514220227.A1187@tethys.valhalla.net> In-Reply-To: <3B003F3B.906F3802@lmc.ericsson.se>; from Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:25:31PM -0400 References: <20010514161231.L55013-100000@cithaeron.argolis.org> <3B003F3B.906F3802@lmc.ericsson.se>
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Antoine Beaupre (LMC) (Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca) wrote: > Matt Piechota wrote: > > While the idea isn't bad, SMB has enough flaws that I wouldn't use > > it. > > I wasn't aware of that. Flaws in the implementation or in the design? > I thought samba was pretty well written, but I guess this is compared > to their Windows counterpart. ;) SMB != Samba. Samba is just a UNIX implementation of the SMB (session message block) protocol. Samba is very well written (in fact MS use one of the Samba stress testing programs to test their own code) but the actual SMB protocol itself is reputed to be evil. I've never looked at it in any depth so I can't say. Cheers, -- Mark Drayton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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