Why is package libpam-smbpass removed?

[Linus Eklöf]

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?
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.

Cheers,
Linus

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 Superseded in xenial-proposed on 2015-12-16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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