-P switch broken for client binaries

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Fri Mar 17 18:39:55 GMT 2006


On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 15:56 +0100, Guenther Deschner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> since quite some time the -P switch to authenticate with a machine account
> is broken for all the client binaries (even worse, a new "/secrets.tdb" gets
> created automatically each time). 
> 
> While this could be fixed with the attached patch, I'm wondering whether
> we could just always have popt call load_case_tables() and the lp_load
> functions.
> 
> Would that makes sense or is that a path not worth taking?

This is very much a path worth taking, and is how Samba4 deals with this
problem.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net
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