2.0.5 problem with variable substitutions

[Todd Pfaff]

I have a problem with 2.0.5 that did not happen in 2.0.4b or previous
releases.  I am seeing thousands of these messages in log.smb:

[1999/07/20 23:44:24, 0] lib/util_str.c:string_sub(1095)
  ERROR: string overflow by 7 in string_sub(%M, 967)

and the smbd process seems to be stuck in a tight loop.

It's caused by the variable substitutions in these lines from smb.conf:

root preexec  = [ %U != nobody ] && /usr/openwin/bin/sessreg -a -l s/%M -s %d %U
root postexec = [ %U != nobody ] && /usr/openwin/bin/sessreg -d -l s/%M -s %d %U

If I comment out these lines, all is well.  If I take out the %M it fails
on the %d:

[1999/07/20 23:53:59, 0] lib/util_str.c:string_sub(1095)
  ERROR: string overflow by 2 in string_sub(%d, 962)

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