[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#767896: samba: cannot access shared directories with a literal asterisk character in their name

[Arthur Marsh]

Package: samba
Version: 2:4.1.13+dfsg-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?

Some upgrade that is difficult to track down, but appears to have happened in
the last week of running / upgrading Debian unstable.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

Tried downgrading kernel on client and server.

Tried mounting share on same machine as server, same problem observed.

   * What was the outcome of this action?
   * What outcome did you expect instead?

so I made a directory called test*:

mkdir test\*

If I check for it on a client machine I get:

ls test\*

ls: reading directory test*: Not a directory

If I do the following on the client machine I get:

ls -al|grep test

ls: test*: No such file or directory

then later on in the listing:

drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root              0 Nov  3 21:11 test*


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-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.18.0-rc2 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages samba depends on:
ii  adduser                              3.113+nmu3
ii  dpkg                                 1.17.21
ii  libasn1-8-heimdal                    1.6~rc2+dfsg-8
ii  libbsd0                              0.7.0-2
ii  libc6                                2.19-12
ii  libcomerr2                           1.42.12-1
ii  libhdb9-heimdal [heimdal-hdb-api-8]  1.6~rc2+dfsg-8
ii  libkdc2-heimdal                      1.6~rc2+dfsg-8
ii  libkrb5-26-heimdal                   1.6~rc2+dfsg-8
ii  libldb1                              1:1.1.17-1
ii  libpam-modules                       1.1.8-3.1
ii  libpam-runtime                       1.1.8-3.1
ii  libpopt0                             1.16-10
ii  libpython2.7                         2.7.8-11
ii  libroken18-heimdal                   1.6~rc2+dfsg-8
ii  libtalloc2                           2.1.1-2
ii  libtdb1                              1.3.1-1
ii  libtevent0                           0.9.21-1
ii  lsb-base                             4.1+Debian13+nmu1
ii  multiarch-support                    2.19-12
ii  procps                               2:3.3.9-8
ii  python                               2.7.8-2
ii  python-dnspython                     1.12.0-1
ii  python-ntdb                          1.0-5
ii  python-samba                         2:4.1.13+dfsg-2
pn  python2.7:any                        <none>
ii  samba-common                         2:4.1.13+dfsg-2
ii  samba-common-bin                     2:4.1.13+dfsg-2
ii  samba-dsdb-modules                   2:4.1.13+dfsg-2
ii  samba-libs                           2:4.1.13+dfsg-2
ii  tdb-tools                            1.3.1-1
ii  update-inetd                         4.43

Versions of packages samba recommends:
ii  attr               1:2.4.47-2
ii  logrotate          3.8.7-1
ii  samba-vfs-modules  2:4.1.13+dfsg-2

Versions of packages samba suggests:
ii  bind9          1:9.9.5.dfsg-5
ii  bind9utils     1:9.9.5.dfsg-5
pn  ctdb           <none>
pn  ldb-tools      <none>
ii  ntp            1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3.1
pn  smbldap-tools  <none>
ii  winbind        2:4.1.13+dfsg-2

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