[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#528429: Bug#528429: samba: 3.3.3-1 BPO: pam_smbpass dependency and X86 Vista lsass.exe crash

[Steve Langasek]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 08:29:51PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Juergen Pfennig (info at j-pfennig.de):
> > Package: samba
> > Version: 2:3.3.3-1~bpo50+1
> > Severity: minor

> > Hi, thanks for the upload to backports. Unfortunately the 3.3.3-1 can be
> > very helpfull for using KDE4's kmail or other programs creating (lock-)
> > files with strange names. This now really works, my CIFSxxxx files are
> > gone. BUT:

> > 1) pam_smbpass.so has a dependency that removes the lenny pam package. My
> > workaround was to keep the old copy in /lib/security. Very odd please
> > Fix!

> That needs a backport of pam because of recent changes in the pam
> source package....or a change in libpam-smbpass for backports.org to
> drop support for newly introduced in suqeeze "pam-auth-update".

> I'm afraid that neither of those will happen...unless Steve os OK to
> backport pam.

I have no intention of maintaining a backport of pam.

> > 2) Bug#526905: samba: Vista also seen on x86. This is just for
> > information. A vista x86 ultimate installed in VirtualBox 2.1.4 ose gets
> > killed when booted after having joined the samba domain if the network
> > is connected at boot time.

> > Thanks again, 3.3.3-1 works fine, Vista is not important anyhow.

> Hmm ; are backports.org backports really meant to be tracked through
> the main Debian BTS. I doubt that.

> I'm tempted to close this bug report, though it's good to know that
> libpam-smbpass from bacports.org is not usable....

If you think the report should be closed, I'm happier for it; I wasn't going
to presume to close it myself, because I wasn't sure if this was one of the
conditions for packages being included on bpo.

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