[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#451272: localized pam == no samba password changing

[Steve Langasek]

tags 451272 pending
thanks

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:44:50PM -0500, Mathias Gug wrote:
> To apply password change requests from Samba clients to system passwords and
> not just to Samba passwords, Samba invokes PAM either directly or by way of
> /usr/bin/passwd and is configured to know how to communicate with PAM modules
> using expect-style rules (smb.conf setting "passwd chat"). Version 0.99.7.1 of
> pam includes l10n support, which means that the prompts generated by PAM
> modules are now different for each locale. To account for this, Samba should
> explicitly use the C locale when attempting a password sync and restore the
> user's locale setting afterwards.

Gee, the text of this bug report looks familiar... ;)

Applied to subversion.

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