From: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 02:58:31 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: r4976: Try to scare people off from trying to write authentication modules
X-Git-Tag: samba-misc-tags/initial-v3-0-unstable~5354
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fb694f2b1a809d221f48f9b9b0e54e9512325bae;p=thirdparty%2Fsamba.git

r4976: Try to scare people off from trying to write authentication modules
that only acheive as much as 'security=server' does.

Andrew Bartlett
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diff --git a/source/include/auth.h b/source/include/auth.h
index 188cf58643d..91751e71804 100644
--- a/source/include/auth.h
+++ b/source/include/auth.h
@@ -112,6 +112,10 @@ typedef struct auth_methods
 			 const struct auth_usersupplied_info *user_info, 
 			 auth_serversupplied_info **server_info);
 
+	/* If you are using this interface, then you are probably
+	 * getting something wrong.  This interface is only for
+	 * security=server, and makes a number of compromises to allow
+	 * that.  It is not compatible with being a PDC.  */
 	DATA_BLOB (*get_chal)(const struct auth_context *auth_context,
 			      void **my_private_data, 
 			      TALLOC_CTX *mem_ctx);