Samba vs LDAP/SSL ans SHA256 cert on NetBSD

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Tue Jun 2 22:51:23 MDT 2015


On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 06:45:20AM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > It can't be.  There won't be a 3.6.26.
> 
> Even if you discover a huge security hole in 3.6.25?

Officially, no. See

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_Release_Planning

for our policy here. Of course, if you find a huge problem
that affects everyone, there *might* be exceptions, but in
the normal course of events we go back to 4.0.

> For requesting the fix to be pulled up to 4.x branch, is there
> documentation explaining the procedure? Or do I just open a bug report
> with reference to the commit here?
> https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=commit;h=d5065ed2f4c6d9f4539297e979
> 4a2b02adec4d12

Yep. Bonus points if you provide patches. For example, back
in 4.0 we still have the autoconf system supported.

Volker

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