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

Timestamp:

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

Author:

Silvan Scherrer

Message:

Samba Server: update vendor to version 4.4.3

File:

• vendor/current/docs-xml/Samba3-Developers-Guide/unix-smb.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

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>