5.2 Protecting your Samba network shares

Samba allows you to make your UNIX server act as a file server for Windows workstations connected on a network. Since such file servers generally contain shared network resources, protecting the server is essential to the system's security. To actively protect Windows workstation from, for instance contracting viruses that might be stored inside files residing on a UNIX samba (SMB/CIFS) server, on-access scanning is required. On-access scanning is provided by F-PROT Antivirus for UNIX using the Preloadable Library Call Wrapper (f-prot.so) and the F-PROT Antivirus Daemon scanner (f-protd).

This is how you do it

Exactly how this is done depends on your distribution and how you start the samba server. In general, you will need to edit your samba startup script, usually called /etc/init.d/smb or /etc/init.d/samba and add the string:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/f-prot/tools/f-prot.so

to the beginning of the line where smbd is started.

RedHat example:

In the file

/etc/init.d/smb

change the line:

daemon smbd $SMBDOPTIONS

to:

LD_PRELOAD="/usr/local/f-prot/tools/f-prot.so" daemon smbd $SMBDOPTIONS

SuSE example (from SuSE 8.2):

In the file

/etc/init.d/smb

change the line:

startproc -p ${PID_FILE} ${DAEMON_DIR}${BIN_SUFFIX}/${SMBD_BIN} -D -s ${SMB_CONF}

to:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/f-prot/tools/f-prot.so startproc -p ${PID_FILE} ${DAEMON_DIR}${BIN_SUFFIX}/${SMBD_BIN} -D -s ${SMB_CONF}

Please note: You might further want to limit the scope of file scanning by setting scanning rules in /etc/f-prot.conf. See the man page for f-prot.so for detailed information regarding /etc/f-prot.conf, f-prot.so in general and its configuration options.

For SELinux users, see man page for f-prot.so for detailed description regarding the documentation and configuration in general.

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