[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#450738: libpam-smbpass: kills gnome-screensaver dialog with SIGABRT

[Steve Langasek]

Package: libpam-smbpass
Version: 3.0.26a-1
Severity: important

The libpam-smbpass module, when called by an app run as a non-root user,
kills the calling application with SIGABRT due to inability to read the
secrets.tdb.  This is inappropriate for a PAM module, a PAM module should
never generate signals; a solution for handling get_global_sam_sid() in the
common code needs to be found that DTRT for each of the server and the PAM
module.

I think this same behavior has been previously reported in smbclient, but I
haven't yet found the related bug report - there's probably an easy and
consistent fix that can be applied here if we locate that other report.

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