[Samba] Re: String overflow in safe_strcpy - bug in documentation
Carl Matthews
cmatthews at myrealbox.com
Mon Jul 26 09:21:09 GMT 2004
Hi Jeremy,
Ive been checking the svn for mangling fixes but didnt see any should i
just add it to bugzilla so it theres a record of it?
Cheers
Carl.
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 09:51:25PM +0200, Thomas Bork wrote:
>
>>Herb Lewis schrieb:
>>
>>
>>>you can change "mangle prefix" to specify the number of characters you
>>>want to stay the same. Just remember the more letters that remain the
>>>same the more likely you will get a collision and slow things down.
>>
>>http://de.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html
>>
>>mangling method (G)
>>controls the algorithm used for the generating the mangled names. Can
>>take two different values, "hash" and "hash2". "hash" is the default and
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>is the algorithm that has been used in Samba for many years. "hash2" is
>>a newer and considered a better algorithm (generates less collisions) in
>>the names. However, many Win32 applications store the mangled names and
>>so changing to the new algorithm must not be done lightly as these
>>applications may break unless reinstalled.
>>
>>Default: mangling method = hash2
>>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>Example: mangling method = hash
>>
>>
>>But:
>>"hash" is not the default (this was in 2.2.x)
>
>
> Fixed in the SVN docs - thanks a *lot* !
>
> Jeremy.
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