Changeset 988 for vendor/current/docs-xml/Samba3-Developers-Guide

Timestamp:

Nov 24, 2016, 1:14:11 PM (9 years ago)

Author:

Silvan Scherrer

Message:

Samba Server: update vendor to version 4.4.3

Location:

vendor/current/docs-xml/Samba3-Developers-Guide

Files:

• contributing.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• encryption.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• unix-smb.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

vendor/current/docs-xml/Samba3-Developers-Guide/contributing.xml

@@ -91 +91 @@
                 <para>Send feature patches along with a description of what the 
                 patch is supposed to do to the 
-                <ulink url="mailto:samba-technical@samba.org">Samba-technical mailinglist</ulink> and possibly to a samba team member who is (one of the) 'owners'
+                <ulink url="mailto:samba-technical@lists.samba.org">Samba-technical mailinglist</ulink> and possibly to a samba team member who is (one of the) 'owners'
                 of the code you made modifications to. We are all busy people 
                 so everybody tends to 'let one of the others handle it'. If nobody 

vendor/current/docs-xml/Samba3-Developers-Guide/encryption.xml

@@ -10 +10 @@
                         <orgname>Samba Team</orgname>
                         <address>
-                                <email>samba@samba.org</email>
+                                <email>samba@lists.samba.org</email>
                         </address>
                 </affiliation>

vendor/current/docs-xml/Samba3-Developers-Guide/unix-smb.xml

@@ -113 +113 @@
 
 <para>
-Many SMB clients uppercase passwords before sending them. I have no
+When plaintext passwords are used, very old SMB clients uppercase passwords before sending them. I have no
 idea why they do this. Interestingly WfWg uppercases the password only
 if the server is running a protocol greater than COREPLUS, so
@@ -124 +124 @@
 </para>
 
-<para>
-Samba can try to cope with this by either using the "password level"
-option which causes Samba to try the offered password with up to the
-specified number of case changes, or by using the "password server"
-option which allows Samba to do its validation via another machine
-(typically a WinNT server).
+<para>Samba will try an additional all lower cased password
+authentication if it receives an all uppercase password. Samba used to
+support an option called "password level" that would try to crack
+password by trying all case permutations, but that option has been
+removed.
 </para>
 
@@ -208 +207 @@
 directory or a shared memory implementation. The lock file method 
 is clumsy and consumes processing and file resources,
-the shared memory implementation is vastly prefered and is turned on
+the shared memory implementation is vastly preferred and is turned on
 by default for those systems that support it.
 </para>