Why is package libpam-smbpass removed?

[Nish Aravamudan]

On 08.03.2016 [17:29:11 +0100], Linus Eklöf wrote:
> If it is planned to have libpam-smbpass removed from 16.04, shouldn't there
> be a change in nautilus-share as well so only guest access authentication
> is possible?

Possibly, I have no idea :) I was just trying to provide you an answer
to your original question.

> Right now it might be rather confusing to share a folder and it just won't
> work unless you configure samba manually, and if you are comfortable with
> that then maybe nautilus-share isn't even necessary.

I think this would be worth a bug if there isn't already one filed about
it.

-Nish

> 2016-03-08 17:02 GMT+01:00 Nish Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan at canonical.com>:
> 
> > 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 Superseded in xenial-proposed on 2015-12-16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
> >
> >
> > --
> > Nishanth Aravamudan
> > Ubuntu Server
> > Canonical Ltd
> >

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