samba: %u in smb.conf not case preserving

[Hans Dampf]

Package: samba
Version: 3.0.26a-1ubuntu2.3
Severity: normal


I configured the samba server as a PDC. Both user and machine accounts
created from the workstations always will be all lowser case; the
corresponding scripts using the '%u' substitution. This is not a problem
with humans here, for they all have all lower case login names. But
machines always are all upper case. Of course they do not really login,
but the server complains in its logs nevertheless, eg:

[2008/03/18 17:09:05, 1] auth/auth_util.c:make_server_info_sam(566)
  User BUFFALO$ in passdb, but getpwnam() fails!
[2008/03/18 17:09:05, 0] auth/auth_sam.c:check_sam_security(352)
  check_sam_security: make_server_info_sam() failed with 'NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER'

pdbedit -L shows the name in upper case letters. Editing /etc/passwd
manually to swap case for the offending accounts fixes the annoying log
entries. Should '%u' in smb.conf preserve case?

Thank you!

Peter


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers gutsy-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'gutsy-updates'), (500, 'gutsy-security'), (500, 'gutsy')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-14-server (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages samba depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf 1.5.14ubuntu1           Debian configuration management sy
ii  libacl1          2.2.42-1ubuntu1         Access control list shared library
ii  libattr1         1:2.4.32-1.1ubuntu1     Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6            2.6.1-1ubuntu10         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomerr2       1.40.2-1ubuntu1.1       common error description library
ii  libcupsys2       1.3.2-1ubuntu7.5        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libgnutls13      1.6.3-1build1           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libkrb53         1.6.dfsg.1-7build1      MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap2         2.1.30-13.4             OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam-modules   0.99.7.1-5ubuntu1       Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime   0.99.7.1-5ubuntu1       Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g         0.99.7.1-5ubuntu1       Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpopt0         1.10-3build1            lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  logrotate        3.7.1-3                 Log rotation utility
ii  lsb-base         3.1-23.1ubuntu3         Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  procps           1:3.2.7-3ubuntu5        /proc file system utilities
ii  samba-common     3.0.26a-1ubuntu2.3      Samba common files used by both th
ii  update-inetd     4.27-0.5                inetd.conf updater
ii  zlib1g           1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5ubuntu2 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages samba recommends:
pn  smbldap-tools                 <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  samba/run_mode: daemons
  samba/generate_smbpasswd: true