CVS update: samba/source/utils

[Andrew Bartlett]

Tim Potter wrote:
> 
> Simo Sorce writes:
> 
> > seem Tim likes ghost code, I waded through rpc_client dismissed code for a
> > while before discovering the new code was in lib/cli_... :-)
> 
> That's the old rpc client code.  Unfortunately it's rather
> tightly coupled with pretty much everything else in Samba.  It's
> a long term project of mine to move everything to the
> libsmb/cli_* code.
> 
> It's pretty hard doing refactoring work considering not many
> companies are interested in supporting it so there isn't much
> time available to do it.  I believe small rewrites of things
> within Samba are necessary to avoid bitrot in the future and make
> Samba nicer to work with and to avoid bugs.  Tridge's NTSTATUS
> stuff is a really good example of this.

So thats how authentication got is this mess?  grumble, grumble...

What happened to 'for the good of the code'?

Andrew,

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