Working to merge libcli/auth

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 21:57 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> It seemed like a good idea at the time...
> 
> I've been working to try and have Samba3 use Samba4's libcli/auth code.
> When completed, this will mean we share all the high-level crypto for
> NETLOGON, NTLM, SAMR and LSA.
> 
> Hopefully this will leave us with a more maintainable codebase, and less
> bugs (or, for example Windows 7 compatibility) being fixed in one
> branch, and not in the other.
> 
> What I have done so far (pretty much just getting smbencrypt.c in
> common) is at
> 
> http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=abartlet/samba.git/.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/libcli-auth-merge
> 
> I'm currently being held up by the fact that we do not share all of the
> charcnv.c code (we share rather less of it than I expected), and the
> need to adapt Samba3's (many!) callers of the NETLOGON credentials chain
> to Samba4's API.  
> 
> The latter I can solve fairly quickly, but the former may require this
> to sit in a branch for a while.  

I've continued this work, spending most of today reworking Samba3 to use
the common (samba4-derived) charset code.  Any comments on the patches
in the above branch most welcome.

Andrew Bartlett

-- 
Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.                  http://redhat.com

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