[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#535910: Bug#535910: samba: Samba not checking /etc/group for secondary groups when determining filesystem access

[Trev Peterson]

Upgraded to 2:3.3.6-1~bpo50+1 from lenny-backports but problem persists.

On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 22:29 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Trev Peterson (trev at advanced-reality.com):
> > Package: samba
> > Version: 2:3.2.5-4lenny6
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > When upgrading from Etch samba stopped checking secondary groups in /etc/group for filesystem 
> > permissions when determining filesystem access.  We use winbind and authentication is working 
> > correctly.  If the group onwership is changed to the primary group (from /etc/passwd), 
> 
> .../...
> 
> Unfortunately, our upstream doesn't keep a complete chronological
> changelog and that makes it hard to check whether this is fixed in a
> later version.
> 
> So, we could first try to narrow this down.
> 
> My first proposal if testing the unofficial packages for 3.2.12 (I
> haven't taken time to update to 3.2.13 which is a security-only
> release):
> 
> deb http://pkg-samba.alioth.debian.org/packages lenny-backports/
> 
> If the problem is still here, you can try 3.3.6 backported packages:
> 
> deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free
> 
> For the latter to work, you need to
> - apt-get update
> - apt-get -t lenny-backports install samba
> 
> Please tell us if one of these fixes the problem. This will help
> narrowing things down and hopefully spot the patch that fixes this (I
> consider it would then deserve going into lenny).
> 
> 
-- 
Trev Peterson
Advanced Reality
Email: trev at advanced-reality.com
Phone: +1 847 406 9018