security = server

Christopher R. Hertel crh at ubiqx.mn.org
Fri Jun 17 22:32:47 GMT 2005


On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 08:12:06AM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 15:54 -0600, John H Terpstra wrote:
: :
> > Any reaction to dropping this?
> 
> security=server should be discouraged, but I do not intend to drop it
> from Samba4, going forward.  

It's also nice to be able to authenticate against a simple server (no 
domains involved).  That's a useful feature (which is properly 
under-documented because it, too, should only be done by those who "get 
it").

Chridz -)-----

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