From: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2019 23:23:22 +0000 (+1200)
Subject: docs: Deprecate "lanman auth = yes"
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docs: Deprecate "lanman auth = yes"

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>

Autobuild-User(master): Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
Autobuild-Date(master): Thu Sep  5 04:04:18 UTC 2019 on sn-devel-184
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diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/security/lanmanauth.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/security/lanmanauth.xml
index a85640b8109..842c12d9b64 100644
--- a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/security/lanmanauth.xml
+++ b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/security/lanmanauth.xml
@@ -2,8 +2,17 @@
                  context="G"
                  type="boolean"
 		 function="_lanman_auth"
+                 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 LanMan (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>lanman auth = no</command>
+    will be the enforced behaviour.</para>
+
     <para>This parameter determines whether or not <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle>
     <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> will attempt to
     authenticate users or permit password changes