Compiling on AIX3.2.5

[Brian Salter-Duke]

On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 02:36:19PM +0200, Burkhard Weeber wrote:
> Check your permissions of the filesystem your samba resides on.
> For some strange reasons AIX always sets the initial owner:group to bin:sys and
> sets the group sticky bit.
> Remove the group stick bit and set the owner/group of smbd and nmbd to root:system.

I did see that in the archives but did not understand it. /usr/local/samba
and /usr/local/samba/bin are root:system drwxr-xr-x. I have never come
across what you suggest in 6 years with this machine. Or am I misunderstnading 
you?

BTW. A 2 year old version of samba works fine. It is just the upgrade
beyond 2.0 that is the problem.

Cheers, Brian.

> Perhaps a security guru can tell about the security concerns.
> 
> Hope it helps...
> 
> Burkhard Weeber
> viastore systems GmbH
> P/O Box 300668
> D-70446 Stuttgart
> Email: B.Weeber at viastore.de
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba at samba.org [mailto:samba at samba.org]On Behalf Of Brian
> Salter-Duke
> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 2:20 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA
> Subject: Compiling on AIX3.2.5
> 
> 
> I have tried to compile 2.0.4b and 2.0.5a on AIX3.2.5 and it
> gives a problem when I test it with "smbclient -L bigserver",
> that was discussed in the archives. I thought it was fixed.
> It gives:-
> 
> [1999/07/22 20:57:05, 0] smbd/uid.c:(68)
>   Couldn't set effective uid to 207. Currently set to (real=0,eff=0).
> Error was 
> Not owner
> [1999/07/22 20:57:05, 0] smbd/service.c:(463)
>   Can't become connected user!
> [1999/07/22 20:57:05, 2] smbd/server.c:(406)
>   Closing connections
> 
> I saw one message about making sure that configure was done as root, but
> I did that. configure (2.0.5a) did warn me:-
> 
> checking configure summary
> WARNING: trapdoor uid system - Samba may not operate correctly
> WARNING: No automated netmask determination - use an interfaces line
> configure OK
> 
> I can not see a way round this and I did not find anything in the archives.
> Did I miss it? Can anyone help?
> 
> Cheers, Brian.
> 
> -- 
>         Associate Professor Brian Salter-Duke (Brian Duke)
> Chemistry, Faculty of Science, IT and Education, Northern Territory University,
>   Darwin, NT 0909, Australia.  Phone 08-89466702. Fax 08-89466847
> b_duke at lacebark.ntu.edu.au  http://www.smps.ntu.edu.au/chemistry/compchem.html

-- 
        Associate Professor Brian Salter-Duke (Brian Duke)
Chemistry, Faculty of Science, IT and Education, Northern Territory University,
  Darwin, NT 0909, Australia.  Phone 08-89466702. Fax 08-89466847
b_duke at lacebark.ntu.edu.au  http://www.smps.ntu.edu.au/chemistry/compchem.html