[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#593059: The locale setting affects Samba daemons.

[TAKAHASHI Motonobu]

Hello

2010/8/15 Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org>:
> tags 593059 moreinfo unreproducible
> thanks
> Samba already includes code specifically to set the locale to C before
> invoking PAM in order to avoid this issue.  So where are these localized
> messages coming from?

In my environment, "pam password change = yes" did not work well at first and
in my log.smbd, there were these messages below:

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[2010/03/01 11:59:46,  3] auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_passchange_conv(369)
  smb_pam_passchange_conv: Could not find reply for PAM prompt: SOME
JAPANESE MESSAGE:
[2010/03/01 11:59:46,  0] auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_chauthtok(702)
  PAM: UNKNOWN PAM ERROR (19) for User: monyo
[2010/03/01 11:59:46,  2] auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_error_handler(76)
  smb_pam_error_handler: PAM: Password Change Failed : SOME JAPANESE MESSAGE
[2010/03/01 11:59:46,  0] auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_passchange(858)
  smb_pam_passchange: PAM: Password Change Failed for user monyo!
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Two "SOME JAPANESE MESSAGE" are actually displayed in Japanese.

After I changed the terminal's locale to C and restarted samba,
"pam password change = yes" worked.

Hmmm, I will examine more.

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TAKAHASHI Motonobu <monyo at monyo.com>