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diff --git a/docs-xml/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.xml b/docs-xml/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.xml index f5f252ba46..becea22531 100644 --- a/docs-xml/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.xml +++ b/docs-xml/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.xml @@ -670,59 +670,6 @@ chmod 1770 /usr/local/samba/lib/usershares </refsect1> -<refsect1 id="VALIDATIONSECT"> - <title>NOTE ABOUT USERNAME/PASSWORD VALIDATION</title> - - <para> - There are a number of ways in which a user can connect to a service. The server uses the following steps - in determining if it will allow a connection to a specified service. If all the steps fail, the connection - request is rejected. However, if one of the steps succeeds, the following steps are not checked. - </para> - - <para> - If the service is marked <quote>guest only = yes</quote> and the server is running with share-level - security (<quote>security = share</quote>, steps 1 to 5 are skipped. - </para> - - - <orderedlist continuation="restarts" inheritnum="ignore" numeration="arabic"> - <listitem><para> - If the client has passed a username/password pair and that username/password pair is validated by the UNIX - system's password programs, the connection is made as that username. This includes the - <literal>\\server\service</literal>%<replaceable>username</replaceable> method of passing a username. - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - If the client has previously registered a username with the system and now supplies a correct password for that - username, the connection is allowed. - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - The client's NetBIOS name and any previously used usernames are checked against the supplied password. If - they match, the connection is allowed as the corresponding user. - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - If the client has previously validated a username/password pair with the server and the client has passed - the validation token, that username is used. - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - If a <literal>user = </literal> field is given in the <filename moreinfo="none">smb.conf</filename> file for the - service and the client has supplied a password, and that password matches (according to the UNIX system's - password checking) with one of the usernames from the <literal>user =</literal> field, the connection is made as - the username in the <literal>user =</literal> line. If one of the usernames in the <literal>user =</literal> list - begins with a <literal>@</literal>, that name expands to a list of names in the group of the same name. - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - If the service is a guest service, a connection is made as the username given in the <literal>guest account - =</literal> for the service, irrespective of the supplied password. - </para></listitem> - </orderedlist> - -</refsect1> - <refsect1> <title>REGISTRY-BASED CONFIGURATION</title> |