[Pkg-samba-maint] "lanman auth = no" by default?

[Eloy Paris]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 06:27:24AM +0000, Christian Perrier wrote:

> Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org):
> 
> > So the plan is to set "lanman auth = no" by default (by patching the source
> > again), which will break Win9x clients unless the admin changes this
> > setting.  Do you have an opinion about this?  Since the last Win9x release
> > was WinME which was a steaming pile that users quickly migrated away from, I
> > think Win9x now represents a reasonably small fraction of workstations and
> > therefore it's reasonable to make this change for both Debian and Ubuntu.
> > Does anyone here feel otherwise?
> 
> From my current work environment (where outdateness is often the
> rule), I would say that we can quite safely assume that still
> supporting Win9x does not have to be a priority. Users who still have
> it should expect some problems with recent software anyway.
> 
> So, in short, go for it.
> 
> > Since this is a behavior change, I'm assuming that we would again want to
> > document it in NEWS.Debian.
> 
> Yes, certainly.
> 
> > And BTW, the default value for "lanman auth" has already been changed
> > upstream in 3.2, along with "client lanman auth = No" and "client plaintext
> > auth = No" which we should also consider; but I don't think we should wait
> > for 3.2 release before getting some experience with this on the ground.
> 
> 
> Yes as well.

I agree too; go for it Vorlon.

Cheers,

Eloy.-