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Update WHATSNEW.txt to explain the vfs_widelinks module addition.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org> Reviewed-by: Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org> Autobuild-User(master): Ralph Böhme <slow@samba.org> Autobuild-Date(master): Thu Apr 9 21:21:46 UTC 2020 on sn-devel-184
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@ -27,6 +27,30 @@ we test with in our CI infrastructure.
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(Build time support for the file server with Python 2.6 has not
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changed)
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wide links functionality
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For this release, the code implementing the insecure "wide links = yes"
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functionality has been moved out of the core smbd code and into a separate
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VFS module, vfs_widelinks. Currently this vfs module is implicitly loaded
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by smbd as the last but one module before vfs_default if "wide links = yes"
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is enabled on the share (note, the existing restrictions on enabling wide
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links around the SMB1 "unix extensions" and the "allow insecure wide links"
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parameters are still in force). The implicit loading was done to allow
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existing users of "wide links = yes" to keep this functionality without
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having to make a change to existing working smb.conf files.
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Please note that the Samba developers recommend changing any Samba
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installations that currently use "wide links = yes" to use bind mounts
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as soon as possible, as "wide links = yes" is an inherently insecure
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configuration which we would like to remove from Samba. Moving the
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feature into a VFS module allows this to be done in a cleaner way
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in future.
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A future release to be determined will remove this implicit linkage,
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causing administrators who need this functionality to have to explicitly
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add the vfs_widelinks module into the "vfs objects =" parameter lists.
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The release notes will be updated to note this change when it occurs.
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REMOVED FEATURES
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