[Samba] 3.0.5pre1 -> 3.0.5rc1 breaks winbindd group lookup with
spaces
Jeremy Allison
jra at samba.org
Tue Jul 13 16:25:21 GMT 2004
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:26:45AM -0400, Matthew Moffitt wrote:
> When upgrading our test system from 3.0.5pre1 to 3.0.5rc1 with identical
> configurations we found that one share using a group name with an
> embedded space was no longer accessible after the upgrade.
>
> Here's an example of the logged error message:
>
> [2004/07/13 10:50:07, 1] nsswitch/winbindd_group.c:winbindd_getgrnam(298)
> group 'Domain in domain TESTDOM does not exist
>
> That's coming from a service specified thusly in smb.conf:
>
> [sdisk$]
> path = /disk1/sdisk
> writable = yes
> admin users = @'Domain Users'
>
> It appears that the group name is being broken apart at the embedded
> space in 3.0.5rc1 but when we revert to 3.0.5pre1 things work nicely again.
Quick fix - change the ' characters to " characters. I know what this
change was. I'll take a look at what needs to change for 3.0.5 final.
Jeremy.
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