Bug#656309: libpam-krb5: Unable to change password in the default setup

2012-01-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com writes: [Russ Allbery] Hm. I'm a little nervous about doing this as a stable update because it's the sort of thing that one doesn't change in stable. The change would break people who were relying on the default to

Bug#656309: libpam-krb5: Unable to change password in the default setup

2012-01-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Russ Allbery] I'm afraid the reaction of the stable release managers was pretty much the same as my answer above: it's unfortunate that this is broken in stable, but this sort of change is too much to take as a stable update. I'm sorry about that, and sorry for having sat on that bug for

Bug#656309: libpam-krb5: Unable to change password in the default setup

2012-01-18 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: libpam-krb5 Version: 4.3-1 Severity: important User: debian-...@lists.debian.org Usertags: debian-edu I discovered this in Debian Edu/Squeeze. After installation, the passwd tool is not able to change the password of a LDAP user with authentication using Kerberos. I

Bug#656309: libpam-krb5: Unable to change password in the default setup

2012-01-18 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Russ Allbery] Hi Petter, Hi. This was fixed in 4.4-3: Ah, right. Can you get a fix for this into Squeeze? I am happy to report that the Squeeze based Debian Edu version will have Kerberos with LDAP backend set up by default. But at the moment it is hard to figure out how to change the

Bug#656309: libpam-krb5: Unable to change password in the default setup

2012-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com writes: Ah, right. Can you get a fix for this into Squeeze? I am happy to report that the Squeeze based Debian Edu version will have Kerberos with LDAP backend set up by default. But at the moment it is hard to figure out how to change the password. :)

Bug#656309: libpam-krb5: Unable to change password in the default setup

2012-01-18 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Russ Allbery] Hm. I'm a little nervous about doing this as a stable update because it's the sort of thing that one doesn't change in stable. The change would break people who were relying on the default to synchronize passwords. I added a NEWS.Debian entry for it when I changed it in

Bug#656309: libpam-krb5: Unable to change password in the default setup

2012-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com writes: [Russ Allbery] Hm. I'm a little nervous about doing this as a stable update because it's the sort of thing that one doesn't change in stable. The change would break people who were relying on the default to synchronize passwords. I added a

Bug#656309: libpam-krb5: Unable to change password in the default setup

2012-01-18 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Russ Allbery] Well, I can ask the release team and see what they think. Great. I've tested, and I can divert away the non-working pam-configs/krb5 and replace it with our own. This command work to move it away: dpkg-divert --package debian-edu-config --rename \ --divert

Bug#656309: libpam-krb5: Unable to change password in the default setup

2012-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com writes: Great. I've tested, and I can divert away the non-working pam-configs/krb5 and replace it with our own. This command work to move it away: dpkg-divert --package debian-edu-config --rename \ --divert