CVS update: samba/source/auth

[Andrew Bartlett]

Rafal Szczesniak wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Tim Potter wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 02:44:13AM -0700, abartlet at samba.org wrote:
> >
> > > This patch has been tested with both NT4 and rpcclient/wbinfo, and adds
> > > some extra functionality to talloc and rpc_parse to allow it to deal with
> > > already unicode strings.
> >
> > I don't see why the unicode strings are stored in the tdb.  Everywhere
> > else in Samba they are converted to char * almost immediately after
> > coming off the wire.  Is it really necessary to hold the unicode
> > value anywhere in Samba except for the rpc_parse routines?
> 
> If I remember well, somebody said that 3.0 release will use unicode
> internally. However, correct me if I'm wrong or missed something
> important. Besides, it's easier and more comfortable to write the rpc
> functions.

I would certainly like to see more code move to a unicode basis - I'm
intending to move the auth and passdb subsystems that way at some point.

Andrew Bartlett

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