[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#726472: Bug#726472: share passwords not working after upgrade from samba3

[Steve Langasek]

On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 01:20:35PM +0100, Ivo De Decker wrote:
> With the conflicts, samba-libs can only be installed once the old packages
> (samba, winbind, samba-common-bin [for smbpasswd and net] and
> libpam-smbpass) are no longer present.  During the upgrade, this means
> they will already be upgraded (on new installations, there is no issue). 
> There is no race condition, however, as none of these new versions will
> work, because they are all linked against libraries in samba-libs, which
> don't exist yet.  So smbd and winbind will not be running, and will be
> unable to run (even if the admin tries to start them).  The pam module
> also fails silently (this doesn't prevent login).

This doesn't prevent login *in the default configuration*.  You cannot
assume that the pam module is only being used via the stock pam profile - if
someone has configured their machine to use pam_smbpass as the primary login
method, this will break horribly.

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