[Samba] core dump from samba-tool when chnging user password

[Andrew Walker]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 1:17 PM James B. Byrne via samba <
samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

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> On Mon, August 24, 2020 22:19, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
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> > A bit of an aside, but it would be incredibly awesome if the FreeBSD
> > port could adopt the same policy as, eg, Debian and not ship any
> > patches that are not upstream.
> >
> > We do consider such patches, with justification, when submitted by or
> > on behalf of their authors.  See for example this recent MR submitted
> > by Debian: https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba/-/merge_requests/1420
> >
> > It makes assessing issues like this much easier.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Andrew Bartlett
> >
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> I believe that Timur has indeed submitted patches of this nature. I recall
> reading that they were deemed unacceptable because of some security related
> difficulty in namespacing attributable to ZFS or the kernel in FreeBSd.
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That was a separate issue regarding acl_xattr. FreeBSD only has "system"
and "user" xattr namespaces.

Timur did attempt to upstream the talloc patch here:
https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2018-February/125592.html