[Samba] Segmentation Fault when trying to set root samba password, IPA as a backend

[Rowland penny]

On 29/02/16 15:44, Rowland penny wrote:
> On 29/02/16 15:11, Martin Juhl wrote:
>> Ok
>>
>> Please post the link for the bug report..
>>
>> Thanks...
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original meddelelse -----
>> Fra: "Rowland penny" <rpenny at samba.org>
>> Til: "samba" <samba at lists.samba.org>
>> Sendt: mandag, 29. februar 2016 16:02:38
>> Emne: Re: [Samba] Segmentation Fault when trying to set root samba 
>> password, IPA as a backend
>>
>> On 29/02/16 14:57, Martin Juhl wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Please notice that i'm not using ldapsam, but ipasam... from freeipa 
>>> server... So I think I need those things in my configuration file....
>> Never heard of ipasam (not that means anything) so I will bow to your
>> superior knowledge.
>>
>>> I'm having trouble finding documentation on the ipasam extension....
>> You will probably have to ask on the ipa mailing list (if there is one)
>> about ipa docs.
>>
>>> Seems as though our problems are similiar
>> Very probably, I am going to file a bug report anyway.
>>
>> Rowland
>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original meddelelse -----
>>> Fra: "Rowland penny" <rpenny at samba.org>
>>> Til: "samba" <samba at lists.samba.org>
>>> Sendt: mandag, 29. februar 2016 15:16:13
>>> Emne: Re: [Samba] Segmentation Fault when trying to set root samba 
>>> password, IPA as a backend
>>>
>>> On 29/02/16 13:44, Martin Juhl wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> First thing is, you shouldn't have a user called 'root' in your 
>>>>>> domain,
>>>> I know, was just saying that the error message changed when I added 
>>>> the user....
>>>>
>>>>>> use a usermap to map 'Administrator' to 'root'
>>>> I have now tried adding:
>>>>
>>>> username map = /var/lib/samba/usermap.txt
>>>>
>>>> to my [global]
>>>>
>>>> and /var/lib/samba/usermap.txt:
>>>>
>>>> mj = Adminstrator
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> Can you try and create a new user with smbpasswd ?
>>>> [root at bart samba]# smbpasswd -a test
>>>> No builtin backend found, trying to load plugin
>>>> Module 'ipasam' loaded
>>>> smbldap_open_connection: connection opened
>>>> ldap_connect_system: successful connection to the LDAP server
>>>> pdb_init_ipasam: support for pdb_enum_upn_suffixes enabled for 
>>>> domain bolls.lan
>>>> New SMB password:
>>>> Retype new SMB password:
>>>> Could not find user test and no add script defined
>>>> Failed to add entry for user test.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> I think you may be hitting the same problem that I have, 
>>>>>> smbpasswd will
>>>>>> create the user, but then segfaults when trying to add the password.
>>
>
> OK, bug report 11760 filed
>
> Rowland
>

I was advised that the problem had been fixed in samba-master and to a 
certain extent it has, you can now create a user and the password is 
added, but the command still ends with a segfault. Not sure if this 
really matters, but I have updated the bug report.

Rowland