Comment 44 for bug 32067
Revision history for this message
| Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen (ralf-nieuwenhuijsen) wrote Re: the security parameter must be set to share, not user, in smb.conf - Smb/Gnome sharing broken | #44 |
@charlie
Yes, it seems the server-client model is one of the tunnel-visions of linux. It does not suit all areas and use-cases well.
Why not add an anonymous user? A guest user.
This user can log in, This user can access all publicly available files of all the other users on the system. This user can connect through samba without a password.
The difference with an ordinary user?
- home directory is emptied at login & logout
- sudo rights are not possible
Advantages to having such an account exist by default:
- easy to temporarily work on another pc
- a kiosk pc is created by just setting the autologin to this user
- samba and other types of filesharing can be enabled out of the box
Caveats:
- new files created by ordinary users should not be world-readable by default
- it might be wise reword/simply the folder and file permissiosn dialog to just choose between:
Private - Local - Public - Shared
Where private means only you can read/write.
Local means all real users on this machiene can read/write
Public means all users, including anonymous/guest can read
Shared means all users, including anonymous/guest can read/write
Maybe it would be nice to add a simple 'share public files with this user' option in pidgin as well.
This user could access the same files as the guest account could.
But that is not a bug-fix. That is a specification. Maybe i'll try to write out it out all.
It would fix this bug, and implement the easy-file-sharing spec, etc.