[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#528134: Bug#528134: samba-common: smbpasswd -a user does not creat /etc/samba/smbpasswd file

[Christian Perrier]

tags 528134 unreproducible
severity 588134 normal
thanks

Quoting Len Berman (lenberman at gmail.com):
> Package: samba-common
> Version: 2:3.2.5-4lenny2
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> I do not have a smbpasswd file and am unable to create one running 'smbpasswd -a'.  In addition, 
> when I run smbpasswd nothing appears in the log.smbd file.

Really ?


root at kheops:~# smbpasswd -a
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
startsmbfilepwent_internal: file /etc/samba/smbpasswd did not exist. File successfully created.
Added user root.
root at kheops:~# ls -ltr /etc/samba/
total 64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4915 jun 21  2000 smb.conf.dpkg-dist
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root     35 mar  2  2003 username.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      8 fév 26  2004 gdbcommands
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      0 avr 12  2007 dhcp.conf
drwxrwsr-x 3 root staff  4096 mai  9  2008 netlogon
-rw------- 1 root root   8192 jan 31 12:03 schannel_store.tdb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  11918 jan 31 15:26 smb.conf.ucf-dist
-rw------- 1 root root    589 mai 11 07:36 smbpasswd.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4264 mai 11 07:37 smb.conf~
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4266 mai 11 07:38 smb.conf
-rw------- 1 root root    101 mai 11 07:38 smbpasswd
root at kheops:~# dpkg -s samba                                                            
Package: samba                                                                          
Status: install ok installed                                                            
Priority: optional                                                                      
Section: net                                                                            
Installed-Size: 11464                                                                   
Maintainer: Debian Samba Maintainers <pkg-samba-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org>          
Architecture: i386                                                                      
Version: 2:3.2.5-4lenny2                                                                

Have you checked your setting of "passdb backend"?

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