On 03.03.22 02:27, Steve French wrote: > We have been looking to see if we could setup some VMs for something > that old, and we are willing to test against it if it could > realistically be setup, but it has been harder than expected. Ronnie > had some ideas and we are willing to experiment more but realistically > it is very hard to deal with 'legacy museum style' unless we have some > VMs available for old systems. > > Feel free to contact Ronnie and me or Shyam etc (offline if easier) if > you have ideas on how to setup something like this. We don't want to > be encouraging SMB1, but certainly not NTLMv1 auth with SMB1 given its > security weaknesses (especially given the particular uses hackers have > made of 25+ year old NTLMv1 weaknesses). Linus, Steve, thx for your option on this. I not sure if "museum style equipment" really applies here, as the hardware seems to be sold in 2013/2014 and according to the reporter even got a update in 2016. But whatever, yes, it's niche thing and what the hw manufacturer did there was a bad idea. Anyway, I'll stop tracking this then. #regzbot invalid: to niche/risky/old, see Linus and Steve's messages for details > On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 6:51 PM Linus Torvalds > <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 10:58 PM Thorsten Leemhuis >> <regressions@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> Thx for the update. I pointed Linus towards this thread two times now, >>> but he didn't comment on it afaics. CCing him now, maybe that will to >>> the trick. >> >> So I have to admit that I think it's a 20+ year old legacy and >> insecure protocol that nobody should be using. >> >> When the maintainer can't really even test it, and it really has been >> deprecated that long, I get the feeling that somebody who wants it to >> be maintained will need to do that job himself. >> >> This seems to be a _very_ niche thing, possibly legacy museum style >> equipment, and maybe using an older kernel ends up being the answer if >> nobody steps up and maintains it as an external patch. >> >> Linus > > >
