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Re: RFD: Dropping subauth support


Corinna Vinschen wrote:


Hi,

does anybody disagree if I'm dropping subauth support?  The
subauthentication only works on W2K, therefore it has never been
announced publically and it's completly unused AFAICS.  It's a
pity since it was a lot of work to figure that out but OTOH there
seem to be no reason to keep useless code.

Eventually -- two years from now? three? -- win95, win98, winMe, and even WinNT, will be very old and not widely used, but WinXPhome and W2k and whatever follows will account for a huge percentage of our installed base.

At that time, it would not be unreasonable to start using subauth...and I'd hate for someone to re-invent the wheel. It does little harm to keep the code in until then, does it?

--Chuck



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