Re: CIFS: Enable encryption for SMB3

[debian@alpenjodel.de]

SLES12 SP3 and Redhat will have encrypted CIFS too 
(https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2017-April/207533.html).
I think Debian should consider to add this important feature in Debian 8 
or Debian 9.


Am 22.04.2017 um 17:25 schrieb debian@alpenjodel.de:
> I think it will be included in Linux 4.11.
> So there is no chance to get this feature into an official Debian 8 or 
> Debian 9 stable package?
>
>
> Am 22.04.2017 um 17:21 schrieb Ben Hutchings:
> > On Sat, 2017-04-22 at 16:19 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2017-04-22 at 14:47 +0200, debian@alpenjodel.de wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > >
> > > > It´s not possible to mount a enrypted CIFS Share yet. is it possible
> > > > to add the following Kernel changes to Debian 8?
> > > No, we don't backport big features like that.
> > Of course, if this feature is in Linux 4.9 (I don't know) then you have
> > the option to install the new kernel version from jessie-backports
> > (https://backports.debian.org/).
> >
> > Ben.