[1822] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Subject: workaround for Samba bug described by ADM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Mon Sep 29 19:19:26 1997
To: mhpower@MIT.EDU
Cc: fubob@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU, efoo@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 29 Sep 1997 19:19:08 -0400
In-Reply-To: mhpower@MIT.EDU's message of "Mon, 29 Sep 1997 17:53:35 -0400"
mhpower@MIT.EDU writes:
> Yes, definitely sending mail to linux-announce about this issue is a
> good idea. There may be a few other points you could add, if you'd
> like. First, there is an RPM available for RedHat 4.2 (I've attached
> the mail to redhat-announce-list that mentioned this). I haven't yet
> looked into what compatibility issues might occur when attempting to
> use this distribution, or part of it, with RedHat 4.0. For example, it
> may be possible to extract the smbd binary from this RPM, and use it
> as a drop-in replacement for /usr/sbin/smbd on RedHat 4.0 machines.
I doubt this will work; the reason for the incompatibility is that the
package requires a newer version of PAM than 4.0 includes, and in
particular I believe the smbd binary is linked against a version
of the pam shared library sufficiently newer to break compatability.
--
Aaron M. Ucko <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu) [Stark raving sane]
