Fwd: [Samba] Almost all working, except for "[: too manyarguments" on samba login

[Andrew Bartlett]

Mark Cooke wrote:
> 
> >
> >1. whenever a user logs in with a winbind user account, it says "[: too
> >many arguments"  This only started since I added a line in system.auth
> >for the pam_mkhomedirs.so to make the directories.  If I remove that
> >line, I still get the error.  Can I safely ignore it, or is it a symptom
> >of a big problem?
> 
> We had the same problem here, ON RH, its to do with your /etc/profile and
> it not liking spaces in the users & groups (this might not be youre
> problem, but this was ours).
> 
> Anyway Ive edited the folowing in my /etc/profile:
> basically its the addition of the backticks on the if line..

I assume you mean the addition of the quotes, the backticks should have
been there before...

> if [ "`id -gn`" = "`id -un`" -a `id -u` -gt 14 ]; then
>          umask 002
> else
>          umask 022
> fi
> 
-- 
Andrew Bartlett                                 abartlet at pcug.org.au
Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team  abartlet at samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
http://samba.org     http://build.samba.org     http://hawkerc.net