getsmbfilepwent error

Steve Cleveland stevec at engr.orst.edu
Tue Nov 13 13:42:04 GMT 2001


I apologize if this question has been asked before.  I have searched the
archive and haven't found an answer.

I am running Samba 2.2.2 on a Solaris 8 SPARC machine as a member server.
I have it setup to log to syslog at level 1.

If I use smbclient to test the connection and give it an invalid password,
I get about 500Kb of logs that look like this:

Nov 13 13:00:28 server.foo.com smbd[6722]: [ID 702911 local7.error]
[2001/11/13 13:00:28, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:getsmbfilepwent(343)
Nov 13 13:00:28 server.foo.com smbd[6722]: [ID 702911 local7.error]
getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (no :)
Nov 13 13:00:28 server.foo.com smbd[6722]: [ID 702911 local7.error]
[2001/11/13 13:00:28, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:getsmbfilepwent(343)
Nov 13 13:00:28 server.foo.com smbd[6722]: [ID 702911 local7.error]
getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (no :)
Nov 13 13:00:28 server.foo.com smbd[6722]: [ID 702911 local7.error]
[2001/11/13 13:00:28, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:getsmbfilepwent(343)
Nov 13 13:00:28 server.foo.com smbd[6722]: [ID 702911 local7.error]
getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (no :)
Nov 13 13:00:28 server.foo.com smbd[6722]: [ID 702911 local7.error]
[2001/11/13 13:00:28, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:getsmbfilepwent(343)
Nov 13 13:00:28 server.foo.com smbd[6722]: [ID 702911 local7.error]
getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (no :)
Nov 13 13:00:28 server.foo.com smbd[6722]: [ID 702911 local7.error]
[2001/11/13 13:00:28, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:getsmbfilepwent(343)
Nov 13 13:00:28 server.foo.com smbd[6722]: [ID 702911 local7.error]
getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (no :)

Here is a relevent section from smb.conf:

[global]
    security = domain
    password server = server1 server2
    encrypt passwords = true
    workgroup = DOMAIN

    debug level = 1
    syslog = 1
    syslog only = yes

Anyone else run into this?  With 2.0.10, it logged two lines in syslog
after a failed password.

Thanks,
 - Steve





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