[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#525874: Bug#525874: smb.conf.5: please mantion guest logins in the man page section on user validation

[Christian Perrier]

tags 525874 moreinfo wontfix
thanks

Quoting Michal Suchanek <hramrach at centrum.cz> (michal.suchanek at ruk.cuni.cz):
> Package: samba-common
> Version: 2:3.2.5-4lenny2
> Severity: normal
> File: smb.conf.5
> 
> 
> Hello
> 
> There is a section on user validation in the smb.conf(5) man page. This
> ends with point 6: if the user supplies the guest user name the user is
> validated regardless of password.
> 
> However, for setting up guest shares that are reasonably usable it is
> required that user names are mapped to the guest account.

Uh?

Please be more explicit.

(at least specifying this is about the "ABOUT USERNAME/PASSWORD
VALIDATION" section rather than "there is a section <blahblah>")

> 
> Specifically, the security should be set to share or guest map to
> Invalid User.


Uh, again.

I have absolutely no idea of what improvement you are
suggesting. Please provide a patch as a basis for discussion.

Without such information I see no way of even try talking with
upstream about this. I of course wonder why you're taking us as a
proxy for talking about something that obviously needs a discussion
with them. We are very opened for this, but we don't want to have to
do all the work, including first understanding what you're talking
about.

Tagging the bug appropriately wrt the current level of information we
have.

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