samba (2:4.20.1+dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=medium Active Directory Domain Controller (AD-DC) functionality has been split out of samba-the-file-server package into its own separate package name samba-ad-dc. This includes the samba binary and a few support executables. Please install samba-ad-dc package separately if you need AD-DC functionality on your system. -- Michael Tokarev Sun, 26 May 2024 13:44:07 +0300 samba (2:4.6.5+dfsg-5) unstable; urgency=medium The samba service has been removed. Use the individual services instead: * nmbd * smbd * samba-ad-dc -- Mathieu Parent Tue, 18 Jul 2017 22:52:05 +0200 samba (2:4.4.1+dfsg-1) experimental; urgency=medium This Samba security addresses both Denial of Service and Man in the Middle vulnerabilities. Both of these changes implement new smb.conf options and a number of stricter behaviours to prevent Man in the Middle attacks on our network services, as a client and as a server. Between these changes, compatibility with a large number of older software versions has been lost in the default configuration. See the release notes in WHATNEW.txt for more information. Here are some additional hints how to work around the new stricter default behaviors: * As an AD DC server, only Windows 2000 and Samba 3.6 and above as a domain member are supported out of the box. Other smb file servers as domain members are also fine out of the box. * As an AD DC server, with default setting of "ldap server require strong auth", LDAP clients connecting over ldaps:// or START_TLS will be allowed to perform simple LDAP bind only. The preferred configuration for LDAP clients is to use SASL GSSAPI directly over ldap:// without using ldaps:// or START_TLS. To use LDAP with START_TLS and SASL GSSAPI (either Kerberos or NTLMSSP) sign/seal protection must be used by the client and server should be configured with "ldap server require strong auth = allow_sasl_over_tls". Consult OpenLDAP documentation how to set sign/seal protection in ldap.conf. For SSSD client configured with "id_provider = ad" or "id_provider = ldap" with "auth_provider = krb5", see sssd-ldap(5) manual for details on TLS session handling. * As a File Server, compatibility with the Linux Kernel cifs client depends on which configuration options are selected, please use "sec=krb5(i)" or "sec=ntlmssp(i)", not "sec=ntlmv2". * As a file or printer client and as a domain member, out of the box compatibility with Samba less than 4.0 and other SMB/CIFS servers, depends on support for SMB signing or SMB2 on the server, which is often disabled or absent. You may need to adjust the "client ipc signing" to "no" in these cases. * In case of an upgrade from versions before 4.2.0, you might run into problems as a domain member. The out of the box compatibility with Samba 3.x domain controllers requires NETLOGON features only available in Samba 3.2 and above. However, all of these can be worked around by setting smb.conf options in Samba, see WHATSNEW.txt the 4.2.0 release notes at https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.2.0.html and the Samba wiki for details, workarounds and suggested security-improving changes to these and other software packages. Suggested further improvements after patching: It is recommended that administrators set these additional options, if compatible with their network environment: server signing = mandatory ntlm auth = no Without "server signing = mandatory", Man in the Middle attacks are still possible against our file server and classic/NT4-like/Samba3 Domain controller. (It is now enforced on Samba's AD DC.) Note that this has heavy impact on the file server performance, so you need to decide between performance and security. These Man in the Middle attacks for smb file servers are well known for decades. Without "ntlm auth = no", there may still be clients not using NTLMv2, and these observed passwords may be brute-forced easily using cloud-computing resources or rainbow tables. -- Andrew Bartlett Tue, 12 Apr 2016 16:18:57 +1200 samba (2:4.0.10+dfsg-3) unstable; urgency=low The SWAT package is no longer available. Upstream support for SWAT (Samba Web Administration Tool) was removed in samba 4.1.0. As a result, swat is no longer shipped in the Debian Samba packages. Unfortunately, there is currently no replacement. Details why SWAT has been removed upstream can be found on the samba-technical mailing list: https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2013-February/090572.html -- Ivo De Decker Tue, 22 Oct 2013 07:52:54 +0200 samba (2:3.4.0-1) unstable; urgency=low Default passdb backend changed in samba 3.4.0 and above Beginning with samba 3.4.0, the default setting for "passdb backend" changed from "smbpasswd" to "tdbsam". If your smb.conf file does not have an explicit mention of "passdb backend" when upgrading from pre-3.4.0 versions of samba, it is likely that users will no longer be able to authenticate. As a consequence of all this, if you're upgrading from lenny and have no setting of "passdb backend" in smb.conf, you MUST add "passdb backend = smbpasswd" in order to keep your samba server's behaviour. As Debian packages of samba explicitly set "passdb backend = tdbsam" by default since etch, very few users should need to modify their settings. -- Christian Perrier Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:42:19 +0200 samba (3.0.27a-2) unstable; urgency=low Weak authentication methods are disabled by default Beginning with this version, plaintext authentication is disabled for clients and lanman authentication is disabled for both clients and servers. Lanman authentication is not needed for Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista, Mac OS X or Samba, but if you still have Windows 95/98/ME clients (or servers) you may need to set lanman auth (or client lanman auth) to yes in your smb.conf. The "lanman auth = no" setting will also cause lanman password hashes to be deleted from smbpasswd and prevent new ones from being written, so that these can't be subjected to brute-force password attacks. This means that re-enabling lanman auth after it has been disabled is more difficult; it is therefore advisable that you re-enable the option as soon as possible if you think you will need to support Win9x clients. Client support for plaintext passwords is not needed for recent Windows servers, and in fact this behavior change makes the Samba client behave in a manner consistent with all Windows clients later than Windows 98. However, if you need to connect to a Samba server that does not have encrypted password support enabled, or to another server that does not support NTLM authentication, you will need to set "client plaintext auth = yes" and "client lanman auth = yes" in smb.conf. -- Steve Langasek Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:23:37 -0800 samba (3.0.26a-2) unstable; urgency=low Default printing system has changed from BSD to CUPS Previous versions of this package were configured to use BSD lpr as the default printing system. With this version of Samba, the default has been changed to CUPS for consistency with the current default printer handling in the rest of the system. If you wish to continue using the BSD printing interface from Samba, you will need to set "printing = bsd" manually in /etc/samba/smb.conf. If you wish to use CUPS printing but have previously set any of the "print command", "lpq command", or "lprm command" options in smb.conf, you will want to remove these settings from your config. Otherwise, if you have the cupsys package installed, Samba should begin to use it automatically with no action on your part. -- Steve Langasek Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:19:36 -0800