smbpasswd -a problem
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
lkcl at switchboard.net
Wed Dec 2 22:31:24 GMT 1998
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Tim Winders wrote:
> Weird. I have the HEAD branch from 20-Nov. I just did a smbpasswd -a
> command and the user was added to the smbpasswd file but with the wrong
> unix ID. I caught this because the user couldn't login. Their unix uid
> was 226 but their smbpasswd uid was being assigned 291. I removed the
> user entry in smbpasswd and tried again with the same result. I manually
> changed the uid field in smbpasswd to 226 and they could login. Ideas or
> should I get the latest CVS and try again?
yep. fixed it yesterday morning. two calls to getpwnam(), one inside the
password database API and one before it. getpwnam() returns a static
buffer. copied the uid and name of the first call before allowing the
pwdbAPI to proceed, problem fixed.
> With all the recent updates, I am becoming afraid! :-)
welcome, all brave souls. always make a copy, first.
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