[Samba] 3.0.5pre1 -> 3.0.5rc1 breaks winbindd group lookup with spaces

Matthew Moffitt moffitt.10 at sociology.osu.edu
Tue Jul 13 16:40:27 GMT 2004


Perfect.  I guess updating the man page would suffice if the code 
changes are complex.

Switching to double quotes is working for me, thanks,

-Matt

Jeremy Allison wrote:

> 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.
> 


More information about the samba mailing list