docs: deprecate "client plaintext auth"
authorAndrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
Thu, 5 Sep 2019 04:55:23 +0000 (16:55 +1200)
committerAndrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
Tue, 18 Aug 2020 00:10:40 +0000 (00:10 +0000)
This parameter is appicable only to SMBv1 and we are deprecating SMBv1 specific
authentication options for possible removal.

BUG: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14460

Signed-off-by: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
docs-xml/smbdotconf/security/clientplaintextauth.xml

index 1c4d3566f827b689bba215b72ec56d33eb58e59d..5a51c33216c7ceec213bce88e983620e3a5f4de0 100644 (file)
@@ -1,8 +1,17 @@
 <samba:parameter name="client plaintext auth"
                  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 4.13 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>client plaintext auth = no</command>
+    will be the enforced behaviour.</para>
+
        <para>Specifies whether a client should send a plaintext 
                password if the server does not support encrypted passwords.</para>
 </description>