Hello:
I understand the reasons for getting rid of --with-ssl
Unfortunately, we are currently using it.
Are there any instructions on how to set up and stunnel
for samba?
Thanks,
Neil.
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Neil Aggarwal
JAMM Consulting, Inc. (972) 612-6056, http://www.JAMMConsulting.com
Custom Internet Development Websites, Ecommerce, Java, databases
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> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 9:57 AM
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> Subject: [Samba] Impending Removal of --with-ssl
>
>
> This message is a warning:
>
> --with-ssl will die.
>
> Ok, thats enough with the dramatics, but the general consensus
> amoungst the
> samba team is that --with-ssl really isn't a particulary smart idea, and
> it is better implmented by external tools.
>
> So what is --with-ssl exactly? And why kill it?
>
> --with-ssl allows Samba to tunnel SMB inside an SSL connection.
> Unfortunetly
> there are only 2 clients: smbclient and sharity. Windows clients simply
> don't know how to use SSL.
>
> So why kill it? It might be useful to sombody?
>
> While some small minority of users might find it handy, it
> confuses many more,
> including a supprising number of our distributors. Users
> actually using this
> functionality will find that they can achive almost the same
> effect by creative
> use of 'stunnel' both as an inetd wrapper as as a 'LIBSMB_PROG' program.
>
> Finally, it is intrusive and ugly, with large #ifdef sections in
> what should
> be simple code.
>
> If sombody can come up with both reasons to keep this code, and time to
> maintain it, then I would like to hear it.
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
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