Bug in the SIDs of system account

Matthieu Patou mat at samba.org
Mon Jun 13 22:13:49 MDT 2011


On 14/06/2011 03:36, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 00:43 +0400, Matthieu Patou wrote:
>> Hello andrew,
>>
>> Can you have a look at this patch ?
>> I discovered today that SIDs for the group and the user are quite often
>> broken, for the group it's rather obvious as we have the domain SID as
>> value.
> Hmm, so the provision would have been created with 'domain users' as the
> owning user for everything, rather than the domain administrator?
>
> I really should have tested that change better...
>
>> Can you check that's the only problem of such kind, and if so sign-off
>> my patch ?
> What we need is a unit test for admin_session(), to ensure this stays
> fixed...
Can you work on the unit test while I work on upgradeprovision ?
>
> note: it means that all provision since Jan 2011 have broken SDs,
> unfortunately I discovered a couple of issues in upgradeprovision so I
> propose to postpone the release of alpha16 up to the moment I finish
> fixes for upgradeprovision so that our users can cleanly upgrade the SD
> of their provision.
> That sounds like a reasonable reason to postpone a release, but if we
> can't fix this in a reasonable time (remember, we are trying to do the
> release for OpenChange), then I suggest we just do another alpha once
> the upgradeprovision fix is available.
Ok let's see up to the end of this week ?

Matthieu.


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