Corrupt smbpasswd and joining a domain

Gerald Carter gcarter at valinux.com
Mon Feb 19 14:11:24 GMT 2001


Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
> I'd say, that this is a reflection of a not correctly 
> (aka automated) Unix-smbpasswd sync set up. OTOH, there 
> will be lots of admins that will also fall into 
> this pitfall, so maybe it would be worth examining 
> before the actual release.

I'll look at this.  The problem would be caused by the smbpasswd
lookup routines attempting a getpwuid for every smbpasswd user
(not just the one you are looking for).  This has been fixed 
in HEAD btw...






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