Re: problems with samba and tdbsam backend

[Chuck Haines <chaines gmail com>]

Does anyone know where I can obtain this RPM for shadow-utils?  I'm
want to upgrade our PDC from RHEL3 to RHEL4 but I can't until this
issue is resolved.

Chuck

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 14:39:18 +0100, Tom G. Christensen
<tgc statsbiblioteket dk> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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