[Bug 476578] [NEW] After upgrade to karmic samba ignored /etc/samba/smbpasswd

[Romano Giannetti]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: samba

I had a setup with samba shares that where accessed with a stanza in
/etc/samba/smb.conf like that:

[myhome]
   comment = My Home Dir
   path = /home/myuser
   writable = yes
   valid users = myuser

and it worked. I had a

encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd

in my smb.conf. It all worked in Jaunty when accessing the shares
through the VBox virtualmachines I had, running Windows XP. After the
upgrade, the shares where unreacheable with the following error:

check_ntlm_password:  Authentication for user [romano] -> [romano]
FAILED with error NT_STATUS_WRONG_PASSWORD

After a bit of searching, I discovered that the file
/etc/samba/smbpasswd is ignored. Look at that:

# strace -f smbpasswd -e myuser |& grep smbpasswd
execve("/usr/bin/smbpasswd", ["smbpasswd", "-e", "myuser"], [/* 23 vars */]) = 0

No access to  /etc/samba/smbpasswd at all!

I just did a smbpasswd -a myuser and the samba shares work again as
before.

I am filing this bug albeit I have a good answer to it in the hope it
could be useful for someone.

** Affects: samba (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: samba
  
  I had a setup with samba shares that where accessed with a stanza in
  /etc/samba/smb.conf like that:
  
  [myhome]
-    comment = My Home Dir
-    path = /home/myuser
-    writable = yes
-    valid users = myuser
+    comment = My Home Dir
+    path = /home/myuser
+    writable = yes
+    valid users = myuser
  
  and it worked. I had a
  
  encrypt passwords = yes
  smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
  
- in my smb.conf. It all worked in Jaunty when accessing through the VBox
- virtualmachines I had, running Windows XP. After the upgrade, the shares
- where unreacheable with the following error:
+ in my smb.conf. It all worked in Jaunty when accessing the shares
+ through the VBox virtualmachines I had, running Windows XP. After the
+ upgrade, the shares where unreacheable with the following error:
  
- SMB:   check_ntlm_password:  Authentication for user [romano] ->
- [romano] FAILED with error NT_STATUS_WRONG_PASSWORD
+ check_ntlm_password:  Authentication for user [romano] -> [romano]
+ FAILED with error NT_STATUS_WRONG_PASSWORD
  
  After a bit of searching, I discovered that the file
  /etc/samba/smbpasswd is ignored. Look at that:
  
- # strace smbpasswd -e myuser |& grep smbpasswd
+ # strace -f smbpasswd -e myuser |& grep smbpasswd
  execve("/usr/bin/smbpasswd", ["smbpasswd", "-e", "myuser"], [/* 23 vars */]) = 0
+ 
+ No access to  /etc/samba/smbpasswd at all!
  
  I just did a smbpasswd -a myuser and the samba shares work again as
  before.
  
  I am filing this bug albeit I have a good answer to it in the hope it
  could be useful for someone.

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After upgrade to karmic samba ignored /etc/samba/smbpasswd
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