e551cdb37d3e, https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11038

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 08:02:47AM +0200, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 September 2015 12:51:41 Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 09:38:02PM +0200, Günther Deschner wrote:
> > > Have you tried removing the fake prompter completely ?
> > 
> > According to the comment
> > 
> > /*
> >   we use a prompter to avoid a crash bug in the kerberos libs when
> >   dealing with empty passwords
> >   this prompter is just a string copy ...
> > */
> > 
> > we crash without it. This is not good.
> 
> But the fake prompter is only needed for heimdal? Can we remove it for MIT 
> Kerberos?

Probably. But that should be a patch on top of this one.
Right now we have a working fix for a critical winbindd
bug so the best thing to do is apply and get back-ported
into release branches, and then we have time to work on
a more elegant change for master.

IMHO of course.

Jeremy.