reassign 192659 ftp.debian.org retitle 192659 Please remove obsolete libpam-smb package from unstable,testing thanks On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 02:05:36AM +1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > The current maintainer of libpam-smb, Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>, > is apparently not active anymore. Therefore, I orphan this package > now. If you want to be the new maintainer, please take it -- see > http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o for detailed > instructions how to adopt a package properly. > Package: libpam-smb > Priority: extra > Section: admin > Installed-Size: 120 > Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org> > Architecture: i386 > Version: 1.1.6-1.1 > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4) > Filename: pool/main/libp/libpam-smb/libpam-smb_1.1.6-1.1_i386.deb > Size: 24270 > MD5sum: 7296d9512dd98c8a4523a5e54da8183b > Description: Pluggable Authentication Module allowing Samba interface > This module allows user passwords to be authenticated via local or > remote Samba daemons, or by NT or Windows 95/98 machines. This package should be regarded as obsoleted by either the winbind or the libpam-krb5 package. It is a developmental dead-end, with an inactive upstream, and its attempt to provide NT domain-style authentication without the cooperation of the NT domain admins (to say nothing of permitting the user to make his security dependent on a Win9x machine) results in a fragile model that's vulnerable to MITM attacks. I see no reason why anyone should still be using this PAM module, nor why anyone should be given an opportunity to adopt it. Please remove it from the archive. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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