Comment 72 for bug 32067
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| Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen (ralf-nieuwenhuijsen) wrote Re: the security parameter must be set to share, not user, in smb.conf - Smb/Gnome sharing broken | #72 |
@soren
I am sorry for my tone of voice.
I was getting upset, not by the bug itself, but how it is dealt with.
For years now, there is broken GUI functionality in the desktop. No user understands why it is broken.
If you would ask the user 'what do you expect?' .. they would say: 'i chose to share folder X, but it does not work'
What did they _expect_? They expected it to work _without_ requiring a password.
During all those years people have complained about this. We are told it is insecure. None of _us_ understand _why_.
You, being the expert, obviously does understand it. But could please communicate why the behavior a desktop-user expects is bad?
We can all imagine this behavior would be the wrong default for a server. But I didn't install server. I installed a desktop. I didn't share all my files, the GUI already had me pick which folder(s) to share. I choose things like my music and my photo's.
Again, my apologies for my tone. Could you please give us an official statement what is wrong with us, wanting to share files without a password? Why shouldn't we do this?
Thank you in advance, in name of all frustated desktop-users that as this point. We would really like an explenation.