Update Kerberos/NTLM docs#2299
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Add a section to the NTLM docs explaining the risks of NTLM over SPNEGO, and include a workaround about how to disable NTLM across all of Windows. Signed-off-by: Matthew John Cheetham <mjcheetham@outlook.com>
Add a section to the Kerberos/NTLM docs about an issue in Git that prevents Negotiate authentication from being performed in 'auto' mode. The `http.emptyAuth` setting must be explicitly set to `true`. Signed-off-by: Matthew John Cheetham <mjcheetham@outlook.com>
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**Changes:** - Workload Identity Federation for Azure Repos (#2297) - Git config caching to reduce git process calls - #2268 - #2296 - #2298 - Dark theme support for OAuth authentication response pages (#2325) - Allow installing on Azure Linux (#2269) - Fix GPG ID lookup for `.gpg-id` in subdirectories (#2274) - Fix CS0121 `string.Split` call ambiguity with .NET 8.0 (#2287) - Fix SYSLIB0057 warning for `X509Certificate2Collection.Import` (#2326) - Fix several small bugs (#2303) - Migrate to .NET 10 (Mac/Linux) and adopt Central Package Management (#2313) - Bump `Tmds.DBus.Protocol` from 0.16.0 to 0.21.3 (#2316) - Azure Pipelines: specify `pool.hostArchitecture` correctly (#2323) - Documentation updates - #2283 - #2299 - Actions dependency updates - #2242 - #2271 - #2272 - #2282 - #2301 - #2315
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Clarify the risks of NTLM fallback during SPNEGO negotiation and offer instructions for disabling NTLM.
Detail the bug and workaround for enabling Kerberos authentication in Git.