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author | Samba Release Account <samba-bugs@samba.org> | 1996-06-19 13:23:46 +0000 |
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committer | Samba Release Account <samba-bugs@samba.org> | 1996-06-19 13:23:46 +0000 |
commit | 851ee418b499df481b765286405cd761e91dcaaf (patch) | |
tree | c44bf5a4bc6f4f5adf38e39ea29d6abe778f40c4 /docs/textdocs | |
parent | ddc4fc68b97f376b97c3a59febf241ace3fb8fc7 (diff) | |
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Basic doc changes to keep up to date.
Dan
(This used to be commit 6d81d56f929e763bcf6b1f7a61aabaf884c4aad4)
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-rw-r--r-- | docs/textdocs/security_level.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/textdocs/security_level.txt b/docs/textdocs/security_level.txt index b565ea7966..34d7ce7093 100644 --- a/docs/textdocs/security_level.txt +++ b/docs/textdocs/security_level.txt @@ -42,14 +42,14 @@ share. It will send a password along with each "tree connection" operation. The client is expecting a password to be associated with each share, independent of the user. This means that samba has to work out what username the client probably wants to use. It is never -explicitly sent the username. A "real" SMB server like NT actually -associates passwords directly with shares in share level security, but +explicitly sent the username. Some commercial SMB servers such as NT actually +associate passwords directly with shares in share level security, but samba always uses the unix authentication scheme where it is a username/password that is authenticated, not a "share/password". Many clients send a "session setup" even if the server is in share level security. They normally send a valid username but no -password. Samba records this username is a list of "possible +password. Samba records this username in a list of "possible usernames". When the client then does a "tree connection" it also adds to this list the name of the share they try to connect to (useful for home directories) and any users listed in the "user =" smb.conf @@ -75,4 +75,5 @@ passwords in encrypted form. You have to compile samba with encryption enabled to support this feature, and you have to maintain a separate smbpasswd file with SMB style encrypted passwords. It is cryptographically impossible to translate from unix style encryption -to SMB style encryption. +to SMB style encryption, although there are some fairly simple management +schemes by which the two could be kept in sync. |