[PROPOSAL] Remove password level (or all plaintext passwords?) for 4.1

[Simo]

On 05/27/2013 07:55 AM, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 07:39 -0400, yaberger at ca.ibm.com wrote:
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> Here is a first list of clients that are using our Samba file service.
>> There will be a few more under "Other network devices" that I'll send in
>> another email once I'll have received it.
>> I should also know which DOS flavor/version is being used in the upcoming
>> days.
> Thanks.  How much are you able to test in this environment?
>
> If I gave you a patch that removed 'password level' and with it the
> password cracker (upper/lower case transition), could you verify if it
> still works well enough for your clients?
>
> The code is ugly, but it is very much contained and I don't need to
> remove it in the face of an active user participating on the mailing
> list, because if we break it, we know you will be able to work with us
> promptly.

Why should you remove them ?

-1 from me unless there is an extremely good reason.

Simo.