[PATCH] Remove non-guest security=share from master

TAKAHASHI Motonobu monyo at samba.gr.jp
Sun Feb 12 09:43:15 MST 2012


From: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:10:40 +1100

> Oops, I forgot to CC Kai and Motonobu Takahashi.

(snip)

> On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 19:13 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> Motonobu Takahashi:  I understand this patch would break the complex
> configuration you posted last year, with a 'read password' and 'write
> password' for a given share.  Do you think this could be acceptably
> migrated to a 'read user' and 'write user' by the time you deploy Samba
> 4.0?

As I posted at 
  http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2011-January/076069.html
  , I think that Samba4 should not support "security = share".

Even if someone likes Windows 9x style share, I think it's time to end
the support. Because support for Windows 9x was ended at 2006.

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TAKAHASHI Motonobu <monyo at samba.gr.jp>


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