[Samba] pam_smbpass causing corruption with su

[Rowland Penny]

On 09/05/15 21:11, Caesar Samsi wrote:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/1257186
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> This bug has a long history since 4.1.6 and I can confirm with 4.2.1
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> I've isolated to the line:
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> auth optional pam_smbpass.so migrate
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> Configured in /etc/pam.d/common-auth
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> That line is added by libpam-smbpass package installation and also by using
> pam-auth-update to enable SMB Password Synchronization
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> For 4.2.1 the error however occurs in su:
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> *** Error in `su': double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x000000000110d800
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> Aborted
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> Which happens after the password is entered.
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Hi, there was some talk about removing pam_smbpass, see here:

https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2015-January/105053.html

Rowland