[Samba] POLL: Does anyone actually use multiple passdb backends on the same server?

[werner maes]

At 16:39 8/08/2006, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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>werner,
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> > anyway I still find it regrettable that multiple
> > backends are no longer possible since we have our
> > users stored in LDAP and the machine-accounts
> > on the local PDC.
>
>No offense, but it's too late to bring that up now.  3.0.23
>was in development for 6 months.  The original thread on
>this was back in February:
>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=113952596500001&r=1&w=2
>
>This is a systemic problem with this list.  No one seems
>to pay any attention until the release is done and over.

off course you're right. but I don't think that one man could change 
this evolution.
to be honest, I've read it but forgot to reply

> > a colleague of mine has some serious issues with
> > 3.0.23a, that's why I'm no upgrading yet.
> >
> > just for information this is what he sees in his logs:
> >
> >  dumping core in /usr/local/samba/var/cores/smbd
> >  [2006/08/08 14:16:37, 0] passdb/pdb_get_set.c:pdb_get_group_sid(164)
> >    pdb_get_group_sid: Failed to find Unix account for s0163566
> >  [2006/08/08 14:16:37, 0] smbd/sec_ctx.c:push_sec_ctx(194)
> >    Security context stack overflow!
> >  [2006/08/08 14:16:37, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(1592)
> >    PANIC (pid 27484): Security context stack overflow!
> >
> >  [2006/08/08 14:16:37, 0] lib/util.c:log_stack_trace(1699)
> >   BACKTRACE: 64 stack frames:
> >    #0 /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd(log_stack_trace+0x22) [0x82128c6]
> >    #1 /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd(smb_panic+0x6f) [0x8212766]
> >    #2 /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd(push_sec_ctx+0x6b) [0x80d49ce]
>
>Is there a bug report on this ?  It won't get fixed if we
>don't know about it.  And since 3.0.23b has just been released,
>it may not be fixed in that either.

No, it has not been fixed in 3.0.23b. there is no bug report as far as I know.
he downgraded his server (since it was a production server) to an 
earlier version of samba.

werner


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