Re: Upgrading security default

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On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 5:11 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:48:40 -0600
>> Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> it doesn't change security flags - but it seemed the smallest and
>>> safest since it basically says:
>>> 1) if you pass in "sec=" then use that
>>> 2) otherwise use ntlmssp (with ntlmv2)
>>>
>>> so shouldn't have any unintended consequences (and the sign mount
>>> option should work as expected as well)
>>>
>>
>> Umm...I think it would. The story for people who need to mount using
>> cleartext passwords has always been "Set SecurityFlags to a magic value
>> and mount without a sec= option". With your original patch, that would
>> have broken them, AFAICT.

you are probably right (sec=none was obviously for null user not plain
text password)


-- 
Thanks,

Steve
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