WIP: Samba's client command line UI

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 10:02:05AM +0200, Andreas Schneider via samba-technical wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm working to cleaning up the mess we have with our client cmdline UI [1].
> 
> Currently we have a source3 and a source4 parsing implementation. I have 
> rewritten the command line parsing code. The only real difference between the 
> two is only how the config file is loaded. So I created a s3 and s4 config 
> loader and that's it.
> 
> The big change is that we need new options to fix a lot of issues face: The 
> biggest change is probably about Kerberos:
> 
> 	--use-kerberos=yes|auto|no
> 
> New is that we have options to correctly request signing and encryption:
> 
>       --gensec-client-protection=plain|sign|seal
> 
>       --smb-signing=off|if_required|desired|required
>       --smb-ipc-signing=off|if_required|desired|required
>       --smb-encryption=off|if_required|desired|required
> 
> You can find the code at [2].
> 
> 
> 	NOTE that this is still work in progress and no all the stuff is
> 	wired correctly yet!
> 
> 
> But I wanted to show you what I'm working on and you can comment. Using that 
> parser will break the command line options for **all** client tools. But I 
> think it is worth the effort, see [1].
> 
> Attached is the output of
> 
> 	smbclient --help
> 
> which I just migrated to give you a full example of the new parser.
> 
> 
> Feedback is welcome :-)

Fantastic work Andreas ! I'm really happy to see this.