[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#423780: /usr/sbin/smbd: does not log warning when login is tried with non-existent users

[Marc Haber]

Package: samba
Version: 3.0.24-6
Severity: minor
File: /usr/sbin/smbd

I do not have too much experience with samba and have just called
smbpassword on my user account to set a password (which succeeded
without warning) and then spent the next 30 minutes debugging why no
login was possible. smbpasswd -a mh (as root) was necessary.

In these situation, with log level 5, all that was found in the log
file was that smbd was trying to log me in as root. It neither said
that I was trying to log in as "mh", nor that the user I was trying to
log in as was not existent or not activated. This should be improved.

Greetings
Marc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21.1-scyw00225 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages samba depends on:
ii  debconf  1.5.13                          Debian configuration management sy
ii  libacl1  2.2.42-1                        Access control list shared library
ii  libattr1 1:2.4.32-1.1                    Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6    2.5-7                           GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomer 1.39+1.40-WIP-2007.04.07+dfsg-2 common error description library
ii  libcupsy 1.2.7-4                         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libgnutl 1.6.2-2                         the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.1-3                    MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap2 2.1.30-13.4                     OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam-m 0.79-4                          Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-r 0.79-4                          Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g 0.79-4                          Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpopt0 1.10-3                          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  logrotat 3.7.1-3                         Log rotation utility
ii  lsb-base 3.1-23.1                        Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  netbase  4.29                            Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  procps   1:3.2.7-3                       /proc file system utilities
ii  samba-co 3.0.24-6                        Samba common files used by both th
ii  zlib1g   1:1.2.3-14                      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages samba recommends:
pn  smbldap-tools                 <none>     (no description available)

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