Why is package libpam-smbpass removed?

[Nish Aravamudan]

On 08.03.2016 [14:12:46 +0100], Linus Eklöf wrote:
> This breaks the easy set up for folder sharing in nautilus since only the
> guest access will work unless setting up samba manually.
> 
> Is this intended or should this feature be present and filed as a bug?

Looking at the src:samba package:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba, it's still published for
Xenial.

Investigating the binary packages generated, though, you're right
libpam-smbpass is no longer generated.

Ah, the changelog
(https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+changelog) says:

2:4.1.20+dfsg-1ubuntu4
Superseded in xenial-proposed on 2015-12-16
samba (2:4.1.20+dfsg-1ubuntu4) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Backport Debian change to remove libpam-smbpasswd, it segfaults
    leading to non working session (lp: #1515207)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <...>  Wed, 16 Dec 2015 11:47:44 +0100

That bug is:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/1515207 and c#1
there indicates Debian has also removed this package.

-Nish


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Nishanth Aravamudan
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