[Samba] Samba 4.5.5, Bug#12600, & those dangling links

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Mon Mar 6 13:56:41 UTC 2017


I have updated one of my S4 DCs to 4.5.5, somewhat excited about the  
line in the ChangeLog

  * Bug #12600 - dbcheck does not find or fix dangling links on live objects

Do I misunderstand the scope of this bug?

# samba-tool dbcheck --cross-ncs --fix --reset-well-known-acls
...
ERROR: no target object found for GUID component for member in object  
CN=Domain Users,CN=Users,XXXXX -  
<GUID=ff4a20f8e2de284a8db62a5515c3b88f>;<RMD_ADDTIME=130675406960000000>;<RMD_CHANGETIME=130675406960000000>;<RMD_FLAGS=0>;<RMD_INVOCID=b0ebe9ea9b42de448582c58abdf611ce>;<RMD_LOCAL_USN=26155>;<RMD_ORIGINATING_USN=26155>;<RMD_VERSION=0>;CN=mharris,OU=Industries  
Users,XXXXX
Not removing dangling forward link
...

# rpm -qa | grep sernet
sernet-samba-common-4.5.5-14.el6.x86_64
sernet-samba-client-4.5.5-14.el6.x86_64
sernet-samba-ad-4.5.5-14.el6.x86_64
sernet-samba-libs-4.5.5-14.el6.x86_64
sernet-samba-4.5.5-14.el6.x86_64
sernet-samba-winbind-4.5.5-14.el6.x86_64
sernet-build-key-1.1-5.noarch
sernet-samba-libsmbclient0-4.5.5-14.el6.x86_64

It appears it still does not remove the dangling link.





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