ntlm_auth improvements

[Alan DeKok]

On Feb 23, 2015, at 6:35 PM, Matthew Newton <mcn4 at leicester.ac.uk> wrote:
> Alan and/or Arran, any thoughts on merging this? I think the main
> thing to sort out is probably the config syntax, unless there's
> some other way you'd prefer it done?

  I’ll take a look.  But I’m inclined to merge it into 3.1.  I’d like to leave the changes to 3.0 as small as possible.

> FWIW, I finished the Samba patch over the weekend so they have
> that for review. I'm expecting I've done something not quite
> right, but hopefully it'll be mostly acceptable. Just not sure
> what timescales Samba work to and whether it will be able to hit
> 4.2 or have to wait for 4.3, which I guess could be a while off.

  Probably.

> Going forward, all the password-change stuff is in libwbclient as
> well, so it looks like ntlm_auth could be ditched entirely, but
> again needs the libwbclient Samba patch to be thread-safe.

  OK.

  Alan DeKok.