[Pkg-samba-maint] Request little update in package for bug resolution

[Mathieu Parent]

Le ven. 16 avr. 2021 à 18:04, Nicola Mingotti <nmingotti at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> Esteemed Debian Samba Maintainers,

Hi,

> I am running Samba in our company as a DC. In general it works all fine !
> Thank you all for this.
>
> There is a little issue though, with the current release of
> Samba package in Debian Stable it is impossible to ssh
> to a Windows computers in the Domain via public key auth.
>
> After a very long discussion in the Samba mailing list and
> some writing into GitHub OpenSSH page, a couple of people that
> seem knowledgeable say the problem is a Bug in Samba
> which has been resolved in 4.13.
>
> See here.
> https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/1543#issuecomment-820538742
>
> For this reason I ask you if it is possible to update a bit
> that package to resolve the bug. I don't know if that is at
> all possible, it is the first time I ask such thing for a package.
>
> I would prefer to keep working with a stable package since that
> is what I do in all of my servers. I am sure other administrators
> will be happy to get ssh working in the Domain.
>
> Thank you again for you time and you work.

I'm sorry, but the buster package won't see any update beside security updates.

In the meantime, you can use bullseye, which is currently frozen.

>
> Dr. Nicola Mingotti
> Borghi Srl
> Melara (RO)
> Italy

Regards

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Mathieu Parent