[Samba] Logging logins with preexec and Samba/LDAP

Julian Pilfold-Bagwell jpb at bordengrammar.kent.sch.uk
Mon Oct 1 14:11:37 GMT 2007


Mac wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:22:25 +0100
>> From: Julian Pilfold-Bagwell <jpb at bordengrammar.kent.sch.uk>
>> To: Samba mail List <samba at lists.samba.org>
>> Subject: [Samba] Logging logins with preexec and Samba/LDAP
>>
>> I had the following line in my smb.conf with which to log access to the 
>> home share when users logged in:
>>
>> preexec = /bin/echo \"%u logged in to %m at %T\"  >> 
>> /var/log/samba/logons.log
>>
>> Since updating to LDAP however, it's stopped working and I suspect that smbldap cant handle the % substitutions for user, machine and time. Has anyone else run into this problem? If so, any help with the solution would be handy.
>>     
>
>
> Did you upgrade Samba recently? (perhaps at the same time as adding
> LDAP?)
>
>
> The way things like "preexec" are handled changed in about 3.0.24 or 25.
>
> I can help if that looks like it might be the issue.
>
>
>
>                                Mac
>           Assistant Systems Administrator @nibsc.ac.uk
>                            mac at nibsc.ac.uk
>    Work: +44 1707 641565          Everything else: +44 7956 237670 (anytime)
>   
Hiya,

Yup, I upgraded to 3.0.24 at the same time. How's it changed?

Thanks,

Julian

-- 
Julian Pilfold-Bagwell,
Network Manager,
Borden Grammar School,
Sittingbourne,
Kent,
ME10 1EY.

Tel: 01795 424192


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