Samba 3.0a19 breaks winbind helpers?

abartlet at dp.samba.org abartlet at dp.samba.org
Tue Sep 10 10:17:00 GMT 2002


On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 11:37:38AM +0200, Chemolli Francesco (USI) wrote:
> > This program is intended to be invoked directly by external 
> > programs, so
> > they can pass in the string directly into the right argv 
> > buffer.  Shell
> > users can quote.
> > 
> > > What about a also supporting a stream oriented NTLM mode?
> > 
> > I don't see the need - most applications doing this so frequently that
> > they need a stream mode are doing NTLMSSP anyway.  Less interfaces
> > again...
> 
> I think a stream interface is needed for performance reasons.

Why?  We have NTLMSSP as a stream - and if I don't currently see any 
application for raw NTLM outside the MSCHAPv2 example - which 
probalby would not benifit anyway...

I think the performance issues here are overrated.

Andrew Bartlett



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