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author | Tim Potter <tpot@samba.org> | 2002-11-22 00:32:24 +0000 |
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committer | Tim Potter <tpot@samba.org> | 2002-11-22 00:32:24 +0000 |
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Sync docbook directory with HEAD.
Sorry but there are way too many changes to track down all the commit
messages and list them here. Most of the changes look like updates
and cleanups from Jelmer though.
(This used to be commit 75615648d0ace3bde6a2ef2dad562094f1b25d00)
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diff --git a/docs/docbook/projdoc/security_level.sgml b/docs/docbook/projdoc/security_level.sgml index efe2b6eaf3..e2d9cfbbaa 100644 --- a/docs/docbook/projdoc/security_level.sgml +++ b/docs/docbook/projdoc/security_level.sgml @@ -9,40 +9,7 @@ </author> </chapterinfo> -<title>Security levels</title> - -<sect1> -<title>Introduction</title> - -<para> -Samba supports the following options to the global smb.conf parameter -</para> - -<para><programlisting> -[global] -<ulink url="smb.conf.5.html#SECURITY"><parameter>security</parameter></ulink> = [share|user(default)|domain|ads] -</programlisting></para> - -<para> -Please refer to the smb.conf man page for usage information and to the document -<ulink url="DOMAIN_MEMBER.html">DOMAIN_MEMBER.html</ulink> for further background details -on domain mode security. The Windows 2000 Kerberos domain security model -(security = ads) is described in the <ulink url="ADS-HOWTO.html">ADS-HOWTO.html</ulink>. -</para> - -<para> -Of the above, "security = server" means that Samba reports to clients that -it is running in "user mode" but actually passes off all authentication -requests to another "user mode" server. This requires an additional -parameter "password server =" that points to the real authentication server. -That real authentication server can be another Samba server or can be a -Windows NT server, the later natively capable of encrypted password support. -</para> - -</sect1> - -<sect1> -<title>More complete description of security levels</title> +<title>User and Share security level (for servers not in a domain)</title> <para> A SMB server tells the client at startup what "security level" it is @@ -136,5 +103,14 @@ cryptographically impossible to translate from unix style encryption to SMB style encryption, although there are some fairly simple management schemes by which the two could be kept in sync. </para> -</sect1> + +<para> +"security = server" means that Samba reports to clients that +it is running in "user mode" but actually passes off all authentication +requests to another "user mode" server. This requires an additional +parameter "password server =" that points to the real authentication server. +That real authentication server can be another Samba server or can be a +Windows NT server, the later natively capable of encrypted password support. +</para> + </chapter> |