Error messages generated by passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c are (almost) useless

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 21:17, Simo Sorce wrote:
> It seem very clear to me Richard.
> 
> An smbpasswd entry has a single UID field, if there you find something
> that's not a number then the entry is malformed.
> 
> What's unclear?
> 
> Printing the line may clobber the logs, as a malformed entry may contain
> just anything like control chars, I agree that telling the entry line
> number could be a good idea.

More particularly it might contain the passwords...

(our logs are often world-readable)

Andrew Bartlett

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