Re: problems with samba and tdbsam backend

["Tom G. Christensen" <tgc statsbiblioteket dk>]

Rainer Traut wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to setup samba as a PDC in our small network (15 Users).
> So LDAP as backend is overkill, using tdbsam instead.
>
> While playing a little with samba I experienced problems which are not 
> in el3. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, maybe someone can give me a 
> helping hand...
>
> - the useradd program does not allow $ in usernames anymore, so the PDC 
> smb.conf from the el4 Admin Guide is broken, the machine add script 
> fails obviously
> What is the workaround for this?
This seems to be an oversight from Redhat since this very bug was fixed in
shadow-utils 4.0.3-42 (released later as -55 & -56 for fc2/3).
Advisory id's are: FEDORA-2004-510 (FC3) & FEDORA-2004-509 (FC2)

Here's the changelog snippet.

* Tue Nov 16 2004 Adrian Havill <havill redhat com> 2:4.0.3-42

- change MAXMEM static limit on group count to dynamic (#125510)
- re-allow "$" as last char for the sake of samba (#132782)
- don't strip binaries for debuginfo



-tgc