[Bug 1003296] Please test proposed package

[Brian Murray]

Hello Luca, or anyone else affected,

Accepted samba into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at
http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.7 in a few
hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this update
out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag
from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the
bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
verification-failed.  In either case, details of your testing will help
us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

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Title:
  lightdm crashed with SIGSEGV in _pam_winbind_change_pwd() when
  password is expiring

Status in “samba” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “samba” source package in Precise:
  Fix Committed
Status in “samba” source package in Quantal:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  My precise client is member of a Windows Domain. A domain user can
  login using samba/winbind without problem in tty and via lightdm if
  the user password is ok.

  If the password is expiring a domain user logs in correctly via TTY,
  with a message "Your password is expiring in 10 days". if tries with
  lightdm the user gets the message "Your password is expiring in 10
  days", but then returns to the username request.

  On /var/log/syslog i get:

  May 23 08:50:52 tv52605 kernel: [ 1046.645230] lightdm[2415]: segfault
  at 0 ip b73d976a sp bfd66fa8 error 4 in libc-2.15.so[b729c000+19f000]

  for each time the user tries to login with the domain user
  credentials.

  Expected behaviour:

  the user sees the message  "Your password is expiring in 10 days",
  then logs in (like gdm in ubuntu 10.04 does).

  I attach the crash file i found in /var/crash/ (that i'm unable to
  send via apport-bug tue to same strange bug)

  [Impact]

   * This bug makes users unable to login via the LightDM interface when
  their password is close to expiring.

   * This upload just checks for a null reference so that LightDM won't
  crash on it.

  [Test Case]

   * Set up Active Directory (not tested with Samba AD)
   * Have user passwords to expire after a certain time
   * Wait until they would be alerted for this, note crash on login

  [Regression Potential]

   * It is has been upstream for a while now and has been tested by several users.  It is also already fixing in Ubuntu Raring+
   * There might be a better way to handle the null pointer?

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