[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#398428: samba: when changing password with smbpasswd, the passdb.tdb file becomes rotten

[Jerome Alet]

Package: samba
Version: smbpasswd breaks passwd.tdb
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system


While trying to change my daughter's password from Windows 2K
(Ctrl+Alt+Suppr) she lost her connection to the Samba server.

I was able to connect as domain admin from the same box, but once
disconnected I was unable to login again.

>From the Samba server, I tried to change password again and I
was told a problem about password database version problem.

I restored yesterday's backup of passdb.tdb, verified all was
fine, then changed password again with smbpasswd

The file was rotten again. Upon starting nmbd refuses to open
the file but the file is present.

I restored the backup again, all is fine, but I won't touch
smbpasswd again...

bye

Jerome Alet

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=fr_FR at euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR at euro)