[PATCH] remove ntlm_auth4

Volker Lendecke vl at samba.org
Mon Nov 28 07:17:48 UTC 2016


On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 05:47:32PM +0000, Matthew Newton wrote:
> FWIW I've been really happy with the way I've been able to get
> FreeRADIUS to talk directly to winbindd with libwbclient - that's
> been so much nicer than having to exec ntlm_auth.
> 
> So... thanks guys :)
> 
> Maybe the squid people could look at using wbclient as well? Even
> if not, it's a very small C program that would take the right
> arguments and call the appropriate wbclient function, and doesn't
> need to be a part of Samba.

That's exactly what I have in mind. Provide an API that people can use
for full spnego but without all the dependencies gensec brings. Not
sure I'll get there in finite time though :-)

Volker



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