[aclug-L] Re: Fw: Samba must die (fwd)

[Dale W Hodge <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

After posting the message on "Samba must die"  yesterday, I find this
rebuttal of the validity of the message...


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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 12:20:51 +0100 (BST)
From: Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: oommen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Linux Admin List <linux-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
     Bharat Linux Users Group <blug-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Fw: Samba must die (fwd)


Oommen Thomas wrote:

> MS is now trying to kill Samba!
> 
> http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit19980924.html

This was discussed on slashdot.org a few weeks ago. The general
consensus was that Cringely's article was nonsense.

Changing the default configuration to use encrypted passwords is
entirely sensible. Recent versions of Samba support encrypted
passwords as standard (older versions required that the DES support
was added separately, due to US encryption regulations).

A number of people pointed out the the articles which had supposedly
disappeared from Microsoft's knowledge base were still there (URLs
were posted).

Find the original thread on slashdot.org if you want more details.

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Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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