[Samba] samba-tool time

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sun, 2015-03-01 at 01:08 +0100, Tim wrote:
> Hey Andrew,

> What importance has samba-tool time? What function does it have?

The history probably goes something like this:
 - we created the 'net' command
 - when Tridge and I were at Snap Appliance, he thought that it might
really impress a product reviewer if when they turned on their box for
the first time, that it guessed the time and timezone from the local
network.
 - 'net time' was implemented and got the time and timezone from the
Negotiate Protocol response.
 - Samba4 forked
 - during the rewrite, which attempted to keep the same set of commands,
hooking into random bits of SMB got harder, so we switched 'net time' to
make an authenticated DCE/RPC call
 - net(4) became samba-tool

In short, never put down to design what can be better explained by 14
years of history :-)

Andrew Bartlett


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