[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#350926: Change the wording of samba/generate_smbpasswd?

[Christian Perrier]

In #350926,  Ken Neighbors reported that, whatever the user chooses to
answer to the samba/generate_smbpasswd question, that file is created
anyway.

Finally, Peter Eisentraut found that smbd created it anyway and the
*real* question is knowing whether one wants to *copy* the content of
/etc/passwd for passdb.tdb

So, the bug could be turned into a better wording of that template:

Template: samba/generate_smbpasswd
Type: boolean
Default: false
_Description: Create samba password database, /var/lib/samba/passdb.tdb?
 To be compatible with the defaults in most versions of Windows, Samba must
 be configured to use encrypted passwords.  This requires user passwords to
 be stored in a file separate from /etc/passwd.  This file can be created
 automatically, but the passwords must be added manually by running
 smbpasswd and be kept up-to-date in the future.
 .
 If you do not create it, you will have to reconfigure Samba (and probably
 your client machines) to use plaintext passwords.
 .
 See /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/ENCRYPTION.html from the
 samba-doc package for more details.

To:

Template: samba/generate_smbpasswd
Type: boolean
Default: false
_Description: Create the samba password database from /etc/passwd?
 To be compatible with the defaults in most versions of Windows, Samba must
 be configured to use encrypted passwords. This requires user passwords to
 be stored in a file separate from /etc/passwd.  This file can be created
 automatically, but the passwords must be added manually by running
 smbpasswd and be kept up-to-date in the future.
 .
 If you do not create it, you will have to reconfigure Samba (and probably
 your client machines) to use plaintext passwords.
 .
 See /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/ENCRYPTION.html from the
 samba-doc package for more details.

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