[Samba] wbinfo and usernames with apostrophes - bug?

[Tony Whitmore]

Hi all,

I've come across this issue today, and I think it might be a bug (or a 
feature ;) ). I've been testing Samba 3 on Debian Stable using the Samba 
packages from backports.org, which is says is version 3.0.2a.

I've been testing Samba as a storage server in our NT4 Domain and have 
been playing with a bash script to set up user directories and 
permissions. Samba is set up with winbindd to use the PDC as its 
authentication source. For some reason, we have 3 usernames in our 
Domain that have apostrophes in them and the "wbinfo" command doesn't 
seem to cope with them very well. For example, "wbinfo -u" produces:

<snip>
DJEPSON
DJUDD
DKELLY
DKING
DLongKelly,DMALLETT,DMCKENNA,DMCKENZIE,DoGregory,DOSHEA,DPabari,DSANDHU,DSwain,DTribbeck,DUMMY1,DUMMY3,dummy3ad,DWateridge,DWELLMAN,EBAKEWELL,EBALL,EBALLARD,EBURGE,EBurnett,ECHOUDHURY,ECHRISTENSEN,ECLARKE,ECLOUDER,ECOADY,EDAFIMU,EDAVIES,EDean,EDixon,EDRAP
R
EDyer
EFRANK
EGIBSON
EGILL
EGladwin
EGOULD
<snip>

Hopefully the behaviour is pretty clear. "DLongKelly" is actually 
"DLong'Kelly" and all the other usernames should be reported on separate 
lines. This behaviour happens consistently with all three usernames that 
have apostrophes in.

As I say, I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, so thought I would see 
if anyone else has come across this issue. (Obviously, the work around 
here is to rename the user accounts, but I thought people might be 
interested in this.)

Thanks,

Tony