[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#553904: samba: Lost accounts on upgrade.

[David Anselmi]

Package: samba
Version: 2:3.4.2-1
Severity: normal

When upgrading a domain controller from 2:3.3.4-1 -> 2:3.4.2-1 my domain became
unusable because the user/machine accounts were lost.

Running pdbedit -L showed none of my Windows accounts (just the accounts from
the Linux server).

Fortunately /etc/samba/smbpasswd still contained the accounts so:

sudo pdbedit -i smbpasswd:/etc/samba/smbpasswd -e tdbsam:/var/lib/samba/passdb.tdb

seems to have recovered.

Running:

testparm -s --parameter-name "passdb backend" 2>/dev/null

shows tdbsam but there has been no change to smb.conf to cause that to be
different now.

Could this be due to not installing samba-common-bin when the other packages
were upgraded (I don't think so)?

Thanks!
Dave

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages samba depends on:
ii  adduser                3.111             add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.28            Debian configuration management sy
ii  libacl1                2.2.48-1          Access control list shared library
ii  libattr1               1:2.4.44-1        Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6                  2.9-25            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap2                1:2.17-2          support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libcomerr2             1.41.9-1          common error description library
ii  libcups2               1.4.1-4           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libgnutls26            2.8.4-1           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.7dfsg~beta3-1   MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libk5crypto3           1.7dfsg~beta3-1   MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - C
ii  libkrb5-3              1.7dfsg~beta3-1   MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2          2.4.17-1          OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam-modules         1.1.0-4           Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime         1.1.0-4           Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g               1.1.0-4           Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpopt0               1.15-1            lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libtalloc2             2.0.0-1           hierarchical pool based memory all
ii  libwbclient0           2:3.4.2-1         Samba winbind client library
ii  lsb-base               3.2-23            Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  procps                 1:3.2.8-2         /proc file system utilities
ii  samba-common           2:3.4.2-1         common files used by both the Samb
ii  update-inetd           4.35              inetd configuration file updater
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages samba recommends:
ii  logrotate                     3.7.8-4    Log rotation utility

Versions of packages samba suggests:
pn  ctdb                          <none>     (no description available)
pn  ldb-tools                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  openbsd-inetd | inet-superser <none>     (no description available)
pn  smbldap-tools                 <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  samba/nmbd_from_inetd:
* samba/run_mode: daemons
  samba/log_files_moved:
  samba/tdbsam: false
* samba/generate_smbpasswd: true