CVS update: samba/source/param

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at pcug.org.au
Thu Sep 13 20:48:41 EST 2001


tridge at samba.org wrote:
> 
> Date:   Wed Sep 12 17:30:47 2001
> Author: tridge
> 
> Update of /home/cvs/samba/source/param
> In directory va:/tmp/cvs-serv22113
> 
> Modified Files:
>         loadparm.c
> Log Message:
> added a new global option "hostname lookups = yes/no"
> This should finally kill off the remaining places where we
> attempt reverse lookups of the IP of the client. It may be that some
> pam modules called via the session code will need "hostname lookups = yes"
> but I've left it off by default as most sites don't need it and so
> many sites have broken reverse maps
> 
> Revisions:
> loadparm.c              1.336 => 1.337
>         http://www.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/samba/source/param/loadparm.c?r1=1.336&r2=1.337

I don't think this will be an issue with PAM, as long as we supply the
IP address.  There are not very many modules that use this information
anyway (apart from as an extra thing to log).

Its a pity there are so many broken networks out there :-(

(Note to self:  Another parameter to set for my 'working' configuration
next release :-)

Andrew Bartlett

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