smbsh and others.

Andrew Tridgell tridge at samba.anu.edu.au
Wed Oct 7 23:38:39 GMT 1998


> whatever we decide to do, it should be possible for other developers to
> use it: smbfs, smbclient, smbmount, pam_smb, pam_ntdom etc.

smbfs possibly, but the others don't really need it. The reason
smbwrapper really needs it is that each subprocess needs to
re-authenticate, which means it needs to somehow get the auth info
between processes (across an exec boundary). It uses an env variable
at the moment.


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