samba - Jan 2022 - Authentication issue after updating samba on CentOS 7 (from yum)

Rowland,
> On Mon, 2022-01-10 at 13:21 +0300, Alex via samba wrote:
>> Rowland, could you please help me with this? I tried to remove some
>> patches and rebuild but this is very time-consuming and I wasn't
able
>> to find the affecting patch yet :(
>> 
>> Also I'm wondering what 2.33.1 and 2.30.2 mean in the patch file,
for
>> example:
>> # diff samba-4.10-redhat.patch.15 samba-4.10-redhat.patch |less
>> 4c4
>> < Subject: [PATCH 01/48] s3-rpcserver: fix security level check for
>> ---
>> > Subject: [PATCH 01/88] s3-rpcserver: fix security level check for
>> 83c83
>> < 2.30.2
>> ---
>> > 2.33.1
>> > It appears this issue is not connected with the bug 14901: I
>> > extracted and applied the patch to idmap_nss.c from the mentioned
>> > comment (and the re-built the rpms) and that didn't fix the
issue.
>> > Analyzing patch file from the package - samba-4.10-redhat.patch -
I
>> > see 40 patches have been added since 4.10.16-15. If you guys have
>> > any ideas how to find which patch might have broken things besides
>> > extracting and applying the patches one by one, that would be
>> > greatly appreciated!
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> Have you considered using Debian 11 with the Samba packages from
> Louis's repo:
> https://apt.van-belle.nl/simple-repo-setup.txt
I'd love to switch to Louis's repo, but this server is CentOS 7.

-- 
Best regards,
Alex

On Mon, 2022-01-10 at 15:20 +0300, Alex wrote:
> Rowland,
> 
> > 
> 
> > Have you considered using Debian 11 with the Samba packages from
> > Louis's repo:
> > https://apt.van-belle.nl/simple-repo-setup.txt
> 
> I'd love to switch to Louis's repo, but this server is CentOS 7.
I know, that is why I wrote 'Have you considered using Debian 11'
This is know to work without great effort and Debian is as much an
enterprise distro as Centos is.

Rowland