Larry Osterman wrote...
> IMHO, the only reason for an open source server running on W2K to NOT > support NTLM authentication is bigotry If referring to lack of interest as "bigotry" makes you feel good, have at it. Poor, hard-done-by NTLM eh? The truth is that the people developing most of this open source code have little motivation to add features for a platform they don't use themselves and for which there are few potential users. In my experience, when someone has offered patches to allow building on W2K, they're readily accepted and incorporated. If there are no such patches available, it's because nobody wanted the functionality badly enough. Contribute some patches Larry. > - the SSPI APIs needed to support > NTLM are pretty simple to support and are well documented. Not to be rude, but distributing the documentation as an executable which decompresses as an MS Word document does tend to limit the audience a bit. What possible reason could there be for this other than bigotry? As it happens, I'm developing some software and would be willing to consider supporting NTLM if it were documented sensibly - send me a pointer to an RFC and I'll look into it as priorities allow. -- Pete Naylor
