[Bug 468224] [NEW] nautilus-share allows sharing only with login password

[John Baptist]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: nautilus-share

nautilus-share only allows two ways to access a given shared folder:
either as a guest (with no password) or with the credentials of the
owner of the folder. This is a problem. The user should be able to share
a folder with an arbitrary username/password combination.

For example: imagine that at university, which is covered by a large
wireless network. I wish to share notes from class with other  students,
so I put the notes in a shared folder and tell them the name of my
computer, and a username and password to acess the folder. But which
username/password? I want to ensure that only these people download the
files, so I don't want to allow guest (passwordless) access, but I
emphatically don't want to give out my login password to every student
in class. Instead, I want a separate username/password that applies only
to this shared folder, and does not correspond to a login credential on
my computer (which would be a major security problem!). I should be able
to do this directly from within nautilus-share, without, e.g.
laboriously creating a new user on my machine for each shared folder, or
dropping to a command-line to call smbpasswd.

nautilus-share should allow the user to specify any arbitrary
username/password combination directly on the Sharing page, or it should
allow the user to select any number of users to give access to the
folder, and the list of users should come from a domain controler or
LDAP server.

This applies to Karmic using nautilus-share  0.7.2-12.

** Affects: nautilus-share (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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