Samba must be configured to use an authentication mechanism other than "share."

From SOLARIS 10 SPARC SECURITY TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE

Associated with: CCI-000366

SV-40295r2_rule Samba must be configured to use an authentication mechanism other than "share."

Vulnerability discussion

Samba share authentication does not provide for individual user identification and must not be used.

Check content

Check the security mode of the Samba configuration. Default locations for this file include /etc, /etc/sfw, /etc/samba, and /etc/sfw/samba. If the system has Samba installed in non-standard locations, also check the smb.conf in those locations. Procedure: # grep -i security /etc/smb.conf /etc/sfw/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/sfw/samba/smb.conf If the security mode is share, this is a finding.

Fix text

Edit the smb.conf file and change the security setting to user or another valid setting other than share.

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