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

Justin Piszcz war at starband.net
Tue Feb 12 04:45:23 GMT 2002


This still does not help, does anyone have this working (reconnect at
login) with Samba?

Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> 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
> >
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