Possible uid leak in idmap

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Thu Nov 27 04:56:19 GMT 2003


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Ephi Dror wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> What happens if the samba crashes right after successful allocate_id but
> before creating the local user account. Have we lost this particular uid for
> good unless we manually claim it by creating user account with that uid
> later?
> 
>>From what I could see, ldap or tdb already storing the next uid while we
> lost the one we have been given due to a crash before having the chance to
> use it.

Yup.  You are correct.

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