On Wed, Jul 05 2023, Ian McWilliam <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > c. april 2016….. Jeremie wrote: > > >> on Tuesday the samba team will release major security patches. You may >> have heard of >> >> http://badlock.org/ <http://badlock.org/> >> >> samba-4.1 is EOL upstream, thus they won't release a new version. >> >> At $WORK we've been recognized as samba vendors, meaning that we have >> access to the bug, diffs and upcoming tarballs. The diff applied to >> 4.2+ is huge, I don't think it's reasonable for us to try to backport >> it. Right now I'm trying to upgrade to 4.3.6... > > If memory serves me, there was an issue at the time linking to lib archive > and as no one else was testing > and didn’t use the feature, I think it was agreed to look at this at a later > date. > > So, this was removed in the middle of a major Samba security, coupled with > moving to newer major versions, > in a short period of time. > > I think that covers it. I have no issue if the feature makes its way back > into the port.
Same here, I'll just include it in the next update to samba-4.18. -- jca | PGP : 0x1524E7EE / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE
