On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 01:20:35PM +0100, Ivo De Decker wrote: > With the conflicts, samba-libs can only be installed once the old packages > (samba, winbind, samba-common-bin [for smbpasswd and net] and > libpam-smbpass) are no longer present. During the upgrade, this means > they will already be upgraded (on new installations, there is no issue). > There is no race condition, however, as none of these new versions will > work, because they are all linked against libraries in samba-libs, which > don't exist yet. So smbd and winbind will not be running, and will be > unable to run (even if the admin tries to start them). The pam module > also fails silently (this doesn't prevent login).
This doesn't prevent login *in the default configuration*. You cannot assume that the pam module is only being used via the stock pam profile - if someone has configured their machine to use pam_smbpass as the primary login method, this will break horribly. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected]
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