Re: problems with samba and tdbsam backend

[Rainer Traut <tr ml gmx de>]

I grabbed the FC3 srpm from here:
ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/fedora/linux/updates/3/SRPMS/shadow-utils-4.0.3-56.src.rpm

But it fails to build:
configure:5486: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
See `config.log' for more details.

In config.log I see this (maybe it's the problem...)
configure:5411: /lib/cpp  conftest.cc
cpp: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1plus': No such file or directory
configure:5417: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:

Rainer

Chuck Haines wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> > -tgc
> >
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