smblib outdated?

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Sat Mar 20 04:22:08 GMT 2004


On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 12:05, Yimin Chen wrote:
> We are currently using smblib to do NTLM authentication for http requests. 
> But smblib is outdated, so I would like to evaluate whether we should 
> upgrade to recent library version provided by Samba.
> 
> Is ntlm_auth part of the samba source?  

Come on, you could answer that yourself ;-)

>  Or it is a separate library that I 
> could download from somewhere else?

ntlm_auth is designed with the specific purpose of providing squid with
the ability to handle the 'NTLM' authentication mechanism in HTTP.  This
is NTLMSSP.

See the --helper-mode=squid-2.5-ntlmssp option in particular.

Andrew Bartlett

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