[Samba] tilde username

Urs Golla urs.golla at gmail.com
Tue Jul 1 15:46:59 GMT 2008


Hi

the problem is, if one of the developers does a "cd ~username<TAB>"
winbind hangs for ALL users and needs to be restartet. I think I will
disable the user/group enumeration in smb.conf.

cheers

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Rob Shinn <rob.shinn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, July 1, 2008 9:49 am, Urs Golla wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I use winbind with ADS security for authentication. If I write "ls -la
>> ~username" in bash or ksh and press TAB or escape to resolve the
>> HOMEDIR the shell hangs until I cancel with Ctrl+C. After that I have
>> to restart winbind!
>> If I press enter after "ls -la ~username" it works. I use
>> samba3-winbind-3.0.28-35 on RHEL4U6 (32bit). Any idea?
>
> Yep.  You just asked AD to return all the users, because ithe shell is
> trying to complete the username first.  Try "cd ~username/<TAB>" instead, if
> you want only homedir completion.


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