[Samba] Re: The Samba Team announces Samba 2.2.7 - security release

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Tim Winders wrote:

> I just upgraded to 2.2.7 and noticed a problem.  I use samba as a domain
> controller for my Win98 machines.  After the upgrade to 2.2.7 all the
> users but myself were getting a failure to login to the domain.  In the
> log file for the machine, I see this error.
> 
> [2002/11/25 15:04:32, 0] smbd/service.c:(597)
>   sisrael (64.69.243.114) Can't change directory to /data/Lkr_Usr_/twinders/tmp (Permission denied)

This is a local compile issue IMO.  

> In this case, the user trying to login is sisrael, but the service.c
> package is trying to change the the TMP directory that was set when I
> configured samba.
> 
> I've tried to reinstall 2.2.6, but I'm having the same problem.
> 
> I am not sure if this is a 2.2.7 issue, a local config issue, or what.
> But, I'm very confused and current samba is "down" for my users.  <sigh>

Set 
	path = /tmp

in the [global] section to override the compile time default.

You should be able to override the TMPDIR environment variable using
something like

	$ env TMPDIR="/tmp" ./configure




cheers, jerry
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