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authorAndrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>2013-06-03 10:27:41 +1000
committerSimo Sorce <idra@samba.org>2013-06-11 08:35:32 -0400
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docs: Do not encourage unix passwords, and remove reference to password level
Reviewed-by: Simo Sorce <idra@samba.org>
-rw-r--r--docs-xml/Samba3-Developers-Guide/unix-smb.xml13
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs-xml/Samba3-Developers-Guide/unix-smb.xml b/docs-xml/Samba3-Developers-Guide/unix-smb.xml
index ae6bdcdb0d..6964b7fb2e 100644
--- a/docs-xml/Samba3-Developers-Guide/unix-smb.xml
+++ b/docs-xml/Samba3-Developers-Guide/unix-smb.xml
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ shares.
<title>Passwords</title>
<para>
-Many SMB clients uppercase passwords before sending them. I have no
+When plaintext passwords are used, very old SMB clients uppercase passwords before sending them. I have no
idea why they do this. Interestingly WfWg uppercases the password only
if the server is running a protocol greater than COREPLUS, so
obviously it isn't just the data entry routines that are to blame.
@@ -123,12 +123,11 @@ Unix passwords are case sensitive. So if users use mixed case
passwords they are in trouble.
</para>
-<para>
-Samba can try to cope with this by either using the "password level"
-option which causes Samba to try the offered password with up to the
-specified number of case changes, or by using the "password server"
-option which allows Samba to do its validation via another machine
-(typically a WinNT server).
+<para>Samba will try an additional all lower cased password
+authentication if it receives an all uppercase password. Samba used to
+support an option called "password level" that would try to crack
+password by trying all case permutations, but that option has been
+removed.
</para>
<para>