[kdenetwork-filesharing] [Bug 334875] User should be prompted to enter a Samba password if necessary when that user first creates a share

[Nate Graham]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334875

--- Comment #6 from Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> ---
For comparison: the way macOS handles this is by hiding the fact that the Samba
serve's user account is completely independent of your own user account on the
computer. It automatically creates a Samba server user with the same name as
the currently logged-in user, then prompts the user to enter their own
password, as though authenticating to something. In reality, the user is
entering their current password as the password for the new Samba server user's
account.

This is clever, but non-ideal for the following reasons:
- Sharing a password between your user account and Samba account is a security
risk
- If you change your user account's password, the Samba sharing user's password
doesn't get updated automatically (or maybe it does now?)

Either way we should probably prompt the user to enter a username/password
combination when creating a share.

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