[Pkg-samba-maint] "lanman auth = no" by default?

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org):

> So the plan is to set "lanman auth = no" by default (by patching the source
> again), which will break Win9x clients unless the admin changes this
> setting.  Do you have an opinion about this?  Since the last Win9x release
> was WinME which was a steaming pile that users quickly migrated away from, I
> think Win9x now represents a reasonably small fraction of workstations and
> therefore it's reasonable to make this change for both Debian and Ubuntu.
> Does anyone here feel otherwise?

From my current work environment (where outdateness is often the
rule), I would say that we can quite safely assume that still
supporting Win9x does not have to be a priority. Users who still have
it should expect some problems with recent software anyway.

So, in short, go for it.

> Since this is a behavior change, I'm assuming that we would again want to
> document it in NEWS.Debian.

Yes, certainly.

> And BTW, the default value for "lanman auth" has already been changed
> upstream in 3.2, along with "client lanman auth = No" and "client plaintext
> auth = No" which we should also consider; but I don't think we should wait
> for 3.2 release before getting some experience with this on the ground.


Yes as well.


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