A query regarding updating machine passwords..... (fwd)

[Sai Chivukula]

Sorry for resending it.....but am still in the dark abt it...had this
sinister idea of adding the word "BUG" in the subject line for
visibility...!!!!!....but decided to reserve it for
the next time...!!!!....

-Sai.


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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 00:10:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sai Chivukula <saivc at veritas.com>
To: samba-technical at lists.samba.org
Subject: A query regarding updating machine passwords.....


Hi!

Actually I have this small query....a clarification, rather......

This is in a scenario where the Samba Server is a member of a domain,
but is NOT a PDC...and gets the machine passwd/updates it by
contacting the PDC...

I have been looking into the Samba 2.0.7 code lately, where there's
this code-snippet in timeout_processing() [smbd/process.c] in which
the machine password gets updated, provided it has outlived the
"machine password timeout" duration specified in smb.conf (the
default being 7 days...in seconds.....) based on the value of
the global variable, global_machine_password_needs_changing, that
gets set in  trust_get_passwd() [passdb/smbpassfile.c]  .

But in Samba 2.2.1, this variable
global_machine_password_needs_changing never seems to be getting
set....'coz that fn no longer exists in passdb/smbpassfile.c...and a
reasonably good look at the code surely didn't reveal any other
place where this could be happenning....

So I was just wondering if this m/c passwd updation stuff is being
done elsewhere somehow...or is it actually something that needs to be
set right?


Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Sai.