Re: PAM support in Samba
On 21 Oct 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
> what you all think about creating a new libc6 Samba package without
> PAM support? I am asking because the current Debian package is libc5
> based and is quite old. However, I can not release an updated libc6
> Samba package because it depends on libpam0, libpam-util and libpwdb,
> which are still libc5 based.
>
> What I am thinking is to release a libc6 Samba package _without_
> PAM support just while the PAM libraries are updated. When this
> happens I will put in PAM support in Samba again.
>
> I think Samba is so important that we should start testing it as soon as
> possible.
>
> So, what are your comments? Anyone out there using PAM with Samba
> seriously?
Which version of the Samba package do you call 'old'? The latest version,
1.9.17p2-0.0, was made September 28th. I wouldn't call this old.
Besides, if you want a working libc6-based Samba I think you'd better try
to contribute to making libc6-based PAM packages.
Remco
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