Re: [webmin-l] Users and Groups module - Problem with Samba "MachineTrust Accounts"

[Kris D. <kd...@vi...>]

William Arlofski wrote:
> That server is slated for an upgrade (the whole thing, not just Samba
> - it is a RH 6.2 server)

*wince* *shiver*  I sincerely hope this machine is NOT directly
Internet-connected.

> but it is difficult trying to coordinate a "good
> time" (tm) with the client to take their main server offline.

Tell them that this is a security-critical change, and the sooner it's
done the better.

You have likely spent far more time maintaining software updates and
building custom backported versions of software for RH6.2 than it would
take to set up a new machine.  I recently had a glimpse of some of the
potential headaches in doing this when I set up a RH6.1 box in an
attempt to build some software that requires a third-party library which
is only available to me (currently) as a compiled object file.  I
discovered that RH6.1 didn't seem to have SSH...  and started trying to
backport the openssh package from RH7.  It wasn't fun.

-kgd
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