Comment 25 for bug 128548

If you are running Samba on a farm of servers, you are probably using configuration management system like Chef / Puppet / Ansible / etc, so changing a configuration setting should be part of your default practice to harden your servers?!

Why does the default config matter so much?

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Sebastien E.

> On May 3, 2022, at 08:20, Michael Tokarev <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi here!
>
> What's the reason here to change the compile-time default value for the
> usershare max shares (from 0 to 100) instead of just letting the admin
> to configure this feature if they wants to? It is just a flip of a
> single parameter in smb.conf.
>
> I for one have to disable this debian-enabled feature on every server we
> have, and this is quite some of them.
>
> I'm considering to remove this change from the debian samba package
> (with the adding of the NEWS item saying we're now in agreement with
> upstream finally, after almost 15 years). What do you think?
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