Samba & trapdoor uid (fwd)

[Christopher R. Hertel]

This message floated across one of the OpenBSD mailing lists.  I've also
seen some inquiries regarding FreeBSD here on the samba-tech list.  I'd
like to know if the folks with FreeBSD troubles are seeing the "Trapdoor
uid" message. 

Debug log entries would be worth-while too.

I've got oBSD running so I'll give this a shot too.

Chris -)-----

Forwarded message:
> From owner-misc at openbsd.org  Fri Jun  4 23:55:06 1999
> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 22:03:53 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Dana Booth <dana at oz.net>
> To: misc_openbsd <misc at openbsd.org>
> Subject: Samba & trapdoor uid
> Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.10.9906042154260.22865-100000 at dana.oz.net>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
> Sender: owner-misc at openbsd.org
> 
> At work, I use Samba with OpenBSD. Been through versions of both, but
> they're currently at obsd 2.4 and Samba 2.0.3. Runs great.
> 
> I made Samba 2.0.4b today, and while running the configure script, a
> message appeared that said, "Trapdoor uid, Samba might not run correctly".
> When I tried to connect to a share from a Windows client, I got a bad
> password error on the client computer, but in the Samba log, it said
> something to the effect that it couldn't set the gid or uid. In the Samba
> FAQ, it briefly mentioned trapdoor uid's as being a system where, when uid
> is set to a user, it can't get back, or something like that.
> 
> Okay, so I'm rambling... But does this ring a bell with anyone? I still
> have it setup, I always make stuff on our real server's evil twin test box
> first. I dinked with it for about half an hour, but I don't really have a
> clue as to why Samba 2.0.3 works perfectly, and .4b gives me this.
> 
> -- 
> 
> ------------------------
> Dana Booth <dana at oz.net>
> Tacoma, Wa., USA
> ------------------------
> 
> 


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Christopher R. Hertel -)-----                   University of Minnesota
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