On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 15:20 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:

> The thing is that there are many ways that a user might have set their
> passdb backend which happened to work, but which were never correct
> according to the documented syntax.  I'm pretty sure that "backend1,
> backend2" was not the documented syntax, and that it was rather always
> "backend1 backend2".  I don't know why you had that comma there, but in
> general I don't think Debian should take responsibility for fixing up user
> config files wrt changes in the strictness of implementing the documented
> syntax -- only when the approved syntax changes.

Our list code allows these separators.

> If you can point me to some resource that said to use the comma, then I'll
> happily implement that check.

I'm pretty sure it has been standard smb.conf syntax for a very long
while.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.                  http://redhat.com

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