Steve Langasek wrote: >> This is part of a set of related bugreports on the packages in the >> Samba suite; I've already reported many of these issues (with some >> suggested fixes) as a single bugreport on samba4 (see #486370), but >> since that approach is a dud I'm trying the alternative of splitting >> them up and targetting individual packages. > > This should have been a single bug report against the samba package, not > 14 separate bug reports!
I did consider it, even after I'd tried it with samba4, but this is 14 separate _sets_ of bugreports; you might agree with me on some and not others. Thanks, indeed, for the detailed consideration below! [...big snips...] > a) Unix passwords are those passwords managed by the pam_unix module. This is a way of looking at it that I hadn't considered. Fair enough. In fact, the topic of (non-MS) OS names really shouldn't even need to come up; Samba is for supporting mixed networks of Windows plus anything else, and we shouldn't need to talk about the side we're starting from. This case of authentication systems is a slightly different one, though. [...big snips...] > Counter-suggestion: > > Description: pluggable authentication module for SMB password database > This is a module for PAM that enables a system administrator to migrate > user passwords from the Unix password database to the SMB password > database as used by Samba, and to subsequently keep the two databases in > sync. Unlike other solutions, it does this without needing users to log > in to Samba using cleartext passwords, or requiring them to change their > existing passwords. > > I don't particularly like the use of the term "SMB password database" (more > accurate would be to call it an "NTLM password database"), but it's > consistent with the upstream terminology for the moment. I'm happy enough dropping the boilerplate para on libs, but I'm not so sure about keeping that synopsis. How about: Description: pluggable authentication module for Samba This has the suite-name in place of a technical detail that's still in the long description, and brings it down to five "password"s. -- JBR Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
