[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#726472: share passwords not working after upgrade from samba3

[Steve M. Robbins]

On October 19, 2013 11:51:14 AM Ivo De Decker wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> Thanks for all the info. That really helps!

Thank YOU (the Samba Team) for diligent analysis of bug reports!  It can't be 
easy on a complex configurable suite like Samba.


> It's not immediately clear why /var/lib/samba/private/passdb.tdb existed,
> but this issue reminds me of #454770. I guess you track unstable on this
> system? 

Yes, I track unstable and tend to do updates every few days so if ever there 
was a bug introduced in one revision and fixed in the next ... it's likely I 
got bitten :-)


> The best thing I can propose, is to fail on upgrade when both files exist,
> so that the admin has to do the cleanup manually. There isn't really a good
> way for a script to decide which file is the right one. At least the admin
> will know that something is going wrong, instead of silently getting old
> (possibly empty) user data.

I would support this kind of approach!  


> > > - do you have backups from before the upgrade? Could you get the
> > > contents of> > 
> > >   smb.conf and the directory listings mentioned above from before the
> > >   upgrade?> 
> > Yes, I have backups.  I'll recover them and send in a separate email.
> 
> It seems the smb.conf didn't change.

No.  I got the usual "file has changed, look at the diffs, take the new, etc" 
dialog.  I chose to keep the existing.  Then I looked at the new config file
and didn't see anything worth changing.

 
> Also, you weren't using smbpasswd. You old smbpasswd was converted to
> passdb.tdb during an uprade years ago.

Good to know. I will remove /etc/samba/smbpasswd, then.

Thanks,
-Steve
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