WHATSNEW: Add changed parameters.

[Karolin Seeger]

Hi Andrew,

On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 03:46:32PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 14:23 +0200, Karolin Seeger wrote:
> 
> > 
> >     WHATSNEW: Add changed parameters.
> 
> A number of these are wrong, because there isn't actually a single
> correct answer at the moment.
> 
> Specifically:
> 
> > +
> > +smb.conf changes
> > +----------------
> > +
> > +   Parameter Name			Description	Default
> > +   --------------			-----------	-------
> > +
> > +   allow dns updates			New		disabled
> 
> This defaults to 'secure only' in the lib/param code, but disabled (due
> to default initialisation) in the source3/param code.
> 
> In some ways this does not matter (it is only accessed via the lib/param
> code), but I'm certain it will cause much confusion in our user base.
> 
> The challenge at this point I don't think it is practical to finish the
> loadparm merge.  Ideally we would only have one set of defaults, but
> efforts in this area dropped off as it stopped blocking other progress.
> 
> We certainly should do more to align the defaults however.

Thanks for your feedback!

That's really confusing and definately needs to be addressed before the
final release IMHO. The following bug report has been created:
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9227 and added to the "Samba
4.0 can't be released" bug report.

Cheers,
Karolin

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