David Mulder
2022-Jan-26 14:14 UTC
[Samba] Remove LanMan auth from the AD DC and possibly file server?
On 1/26/22 6:55 AM, Patrick Goetz via samba wrote:> > In any case, however inappropriate it is for me to offer an opinion, > maybe it's time to branch?? Create a samba4-legacy branch which only > gets security patches and otherwise never changes, and a samba4 main > branch from which old junk is ruthlessly stripped without mercy and > which is updated to work with the endless Windows updates that break > things in Samba >IMHO, I'd rather move forward with the stripping without mercy, and let someone else do the forking if they really need legacy cruft. -- *David Mulder* Labs Software Engineer, Samba SUSE 1221 Valley Grove Way Pleasant Grove, UT 84062 (P)+1 385.666.5660 dmulder at suse.com <http://www.suse.com/>
Andrew Bartlett
2022-Jan-26 18:06 UTC
[Samba] Remove LanMan auth from the AD DC and possibly file server?
On Wed, 2022-01-26 at 07:14 -0700, David Mulder via samba wrote:> On 1/26/22 6:55 AM, Patrick Goetz via samba wrote: > > In any case, however inappropriate it is for me to offer an > > opinion, > > maybe it's time to branch? Create a samba4-legacy branch which > > only > > gets security patches and otherwise never changes, and a samba4 > > main > > branch from which old junk is ruthlessly stripped without mercy > > and > > which is updated to work with the endless Windows updates that > > break > > things in Samba > > > > IMHO, I'd rather move forward with the stripping without mercy, and > let > someone else do the forking if they really need legacy cruft.I agree, and the issue is the maintenance cost. We simply don't have the resources to provide even security patches to what will soon be such an old version, and much of the motivation is to avoid accidentally creating or leaving in security issues in rare codepaths while working on this stuff. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett (he/him) https://samba.org/~abartlet/ Samba Team Member (since 2001) https://samba.org Samba Team Lead, Catalyst IT https://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba Samba Development and Support, Catalyst IT - Expert Open Source Solutions