[pca] samba patch from oracle.

[Francois]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Jeff Wieland wrote:

> Paul B. Henson wrote:
>> On 4/18/2012 8:14 AM, McGraw, Robert P wrote:
>> 
>>> I submitted a SR to Oracle about this and they told me they were working
>>> on a patch and they would let me know when it was ready.
>> 
>> I have an open SR as well 8-/, currently with a follow-up date of 4/30. Not 
>> that I expect an actual solution by then, based on past performance I 
>> anticipate it taking 6-12 weeks or even longer to get a patch.
>> 
>> I asked how come all of the major Linux vendors had a patch available 
>> within hours of the announcement, whereas with Oracle it took days to even 
>> get them to realize there was an issue and say they would look into it. No 
>> response on that. Don :)? Most likely the script kiddies only have linux 
>> shell code for this, so hopefully the wide open unauthenticated remote code 
>> execution with root privileges bug doesn't get exploited on my production 
>> servers while I'm sitting here twiddling my thumbs. I'd run my own local 
>> samba rather than the Oracle bundled one but it's such a royal pain in the 
>> ass to get samba compiled under Solaris <sigh>.
>> 
>> AFAIK there's still just one guy in Prague that works on samba.
>> 
>> I wish one of the Illumos distributions was production ready.
>> 
>> 
>
> I've been building Samba on Solaris since the Solaris 2.3 days...  It
> isn't that hard...  Not nearly as bad as Pidgin or Seamonkey :-).
>

A wiki or something relating your various experiences would be greatly 
apreciated :)


-- 
Francois