[Gllug] samba problem

[John Edwards]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 06:02:42PM +0100, will wrote:
> Stig Brautaset wrote:
>> * Will <will at hellacool.co.uk> spake thus:
>> 
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>I have a couple of users I am sure I added using the smbpasswd -a command, 
>>>will and user1.  The user 'will' works fine (all tested from win2k) however 
>>>the 'user1' user does not work, it keeps prompting for the password.  The 
>>>only difference I can see is the smbpasswd file entries:
>> 
>> 
>> I can spot one more difference...
>> 
>> 
>>>will:1000:encrypted password snipped:encrypted password snipped:[U 
>>>]:LCT-3D616ED7:will
>> 
>>                  ^^^^
>>>user1:1004:encrypted password snipped:encrypted password snipped:[UX 
>>>]:LCT-3D64EBCE:
>> 
>>                  ^^^^^ missing `user1'.
>> 
>> Although I have no idea whether it is relevant or not.
> 
> Yeah, I noticed that after I sent it but I think it is a comment field, other
> users have things like:
> 
> Post Office Owner
> Unprivileged user
> Mister Man Pages
> Owner of many system processes
> 
> And stuff like that.
> 
> Will.

Hi
>From looking at 'man 5 smbpasswd' on a machine running 2.2.3, the fields are:
	1: username
	2: uid
	3: Lanman hash
	4: NT hash
	5: Accounts flags inside [ ] - valid entries are U N D or W
	    fixed field length of 13 characters including the brackets

All other fields are ignored - which would your 'Post Office Owner' et al, 
suggesting that the file may have been hand edited as some point.

I would think that the X in the account flags section of user1 is invalid.
Try replacing it with a space so that the 13 character field length is 
presersed and see if that helps.


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