[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#464035: Bug#464035: samba: Cannot connect user

[Steve Langasek]

notfound 464035 2:3.2.0-4
thanks

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 03:19:31PM -0500, Peter Hombach wrote:
> I could be a serious bug, but it may not have been a bug at all. There  
> were two things that happened at almost the same time on my side: the  
> samba upgrade, and a failing DMA chip of a HD in our fileserver, which  
> in part damaged the filesystem. I restored the fileserver from our  
> routine backup, with the exception of system files (root, /usr, /var  
> partitions), for which I chose a clean installation, meaning that also  
> samba got a fresh start. For convenience, I copied the old smb.conf,  
> rather than starting from scratch (the file is complex because of  
> different directories with different access rights).

> I also properly established the Linux users before starting samba, and  
> after checking it with swat, I just assumed that everything was fine.  
> However, I do not know whether samba is supposed to subsequently use the  
> Linux user information without running pdbedit - I think it should, but  
> it didn't. So, it is up to you to decide whether this constitutes a bug.

Ok.  I have to say that this is not a bug, then; samba deliberately allows
for the use case of local users that are not intended to be visible to
samba clients.  So I'm marking this bug as 'notfound' in 2:3.2.0-4, since
that issue appears to be unrelated to the one originally reported.

Thanks,
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