S3 plain text to encrypted password transition

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:29:39AM -0400, simo wrote:
> 
> No client allows the use of plain text password anymore and has been
> that way for ages now.
> 
> The other 2 features you mention are completely different as they are
> useful today, with today's clients.
> 
> I wouldn't be so hasty with nacking.
> 
> It is a feature I do not see any user of since win9x went away long ago
> (and win9x already made it difficult to use plain text passwords anyway
> IIRC).

There are still old clients out there people need to keep working.
However, the option you're talking about is to migrate people from
plainext to encrypted passwords, and I think that was done a long
time ago for most sites.

We could mark it deprecated and begin the process of removing it.

Jeremy.