[Pkg-samba-maint] plaintext passwords in the Samba 4.0 package

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2013-05-23 at 07:16 +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Andrew Bartlett (abartlet at samba.org):
> 
> > Drat, I missed that.  That really should be in the samba package, not
> > samba-common.  We certainly could revert this, and instead just change
> > the default so the script still has soemthing to pick up.
> > 
> > Or we could drop plaintext support, and provide upstream with a
> > bellweather for if this is something we can plausibly drop in there in
> > the future. 
> 
> 
> If I'm correct, we would not be droppign plaintext support but just
> support to enable it through debconf. Which wouldn't be a big loss
> nowadays, imho. People who still would like to use plaintext passwords
> can still do it by using the right setting in a manually crafted
> smb.conf
> 
> I'd be for dropping that debconf complexity.

Indeed.  Totally agree.

Andrew Bartlett

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