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authorAndrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>2019-09-05 11:19:10 +1200
committerAndrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>2019-09-05 02:45:28 +0000
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docs: Deprecate "encrypt passwords = no"
This feature is only available for SMB1 and we need to warn users that this is going away soon, and allow the removal in a future release under our rules for parameter deprecation. Signed-off-by: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org> Reviewed-by: Garming Sam <garming@catalyst.net.nz>
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diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/security/encryptpasswords.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/security/encryptpasswords.xml
index 4bd97809d86..4fdfa898501 100644
--- a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/security/encryptpasswords.xml
+++ b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/security/encryptpasswords.xml
@@ -1,8 +1,16 @@
<samba:parameter name="encrypt passwords"
context="G"
type="boolean"
+ deprecated="1"
xmlns:samba="http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc">
<description>
+ <para>This parameter has been deprecated since Samba 4.11 and
+ support for plaintext (as distinct from NTLM, NTLMv2
+ or Kerberos authentication)
+ will be removed in a future Samba release.</para>
+ <para>That is, in the future, the current default of
+ <command>encrypt passwords = yes</command>
+ will be the enforced behaviour.</para>
<para>This boolean controls whether encrypted passwords
will be negotiated with the client. Note that Windows NT 4.0 SP3 and
above and also Windows 98 will by default expect encrypted passwords