smbpasswd bad accounts -smbpasswd(1) unhelpful.

Peter Polkinghorne pjmp at kingsfords.co.uk
Mon Nov 5 07:27:10 GMT 2001


We had an account in smbpasswd that was deleted from passwd and got the 
following complaints:

[2001/11/05 10:22:30, 0, pid=1252, effective(0, 0), real(0, 0)] 
passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:build_sam_account(1193)
  build_sam_account: smbpasswd database is corrupt!  username sab not in unix 
passwd database!
[2001/11/05 10:22:30, 0, pid=1252, effective(0, 0), real(0, 0)] 
passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:build_sam_account(1193)
  build_sam_account: smbpasswd database is corrupt!  username sab not in unix 
passwd database!

When I tried using smbpasswd to delete the account with -x flag, it simply 
complained not in unix passwd database - which was why I was trying to delete 
it!

This seems unhelpful behaviour.  I fixed by editing smbpasswd with vi - but 
really smbpasswd ought to do the job.


-- 
Peter Polkinghorne, IT Manager		Kingsford Stacey Blackwell
ppolkinghorne at kingsfords.co.uk		14 Old Square, Lincoln's Inn
(44) 020 7447 1200			London WC2A 3UB





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