Comment 0 for bug 1611816

The cifs-utils source package contains the pam_cifscreds.so PAM module; however, this is not built and supplied in a resulting binary package. This is necessary functionality for our local managed deployment.

We have worked around this issue by building our own patched version of the package; however, this is liable to be clobbered by any future upstream updates. Hence, it would be valuable if our modifications, or some variant of them, could be adopted upstream.

The changes required are minimal; simply add libpam0g-dev to Build-Depends, and add some appropriate flags to ./configure in debian/rules to ensure the requisite library is built and installed in the correct location.

See attached patch.