Proposed code cleanup

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at pcug.org.au
Mon May 27 07:02:03 GMT 2002


Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 
> On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 01:01:05AM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > (I was going to commit this, but decided that I should get some comment
> > first)
> >
> > More code cleanup - this lot a bit more dodgy than the last:
> >
> > The aim is to trim pwd_cache down to size.  Its overly complex, and a
> > pain to
> > deal with.  With a header comment like this: 'obfusticaion is planned'
> > I think it deserved to die (at least partly).
> 
> It deserves to die completely (IMHO). I remember Luke adding that
> code and I was never happy with it.

The only thing that actually needs to stay is somewhere to store the
current password and session key.  Session key for encrypted packets,
and password for NTLMSSP on pipes.  

Andrew Bartlett

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