Hi Amos,
At 04.19 03/10/2008, Amos Jeffries wrote:
Amos Jeffries wrote:
> Kinkie wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Henrik Nordstrom
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Can we please rename ntlm_auth to ntlm_smb_auth in the 3.1 release?
>>>
>>> Having this helper named the same as Samba ntlm_auth is confusing.
>>
>> +1.
>> I would also support removing it altogether.
>>
>
> +1 on the name change.
>
> Though I recall several someones recently had need of a helper that
> didn't need samba installed. Even if it was rather limited.
>
>
> Amos
Actually, what reasoning has gone into using "ntlm_smb_auth" as the new
name?
Because is not a real NTLM authenticator ...
It's based on a very old Lan Manager SMB code, it cannot work on a
Windows 2008 Active Directory Domain and when used on Windows 2003
Domains, the whole domain security level must be lowered in a very
dangerous way.
It' something similar to a Windows 3.11/95 network client.
Such clients was deprecated from Microsoft starting form Windows 2000 ....
I'd would have guessed "squid_ntlm_auth" or ntlm_nodomain_auth" as a
better description from what I've heard about it.
I think that the correct name could be squid_lm_auth.
But I still vote to remove it.
Regards
Guido
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