Hi Alkis
Brilliant, that worked!
Thanks for your swift reply, I'll submit a bug report now.
Best Wishes
John
On 22 December 2016 at 22:18, Alkis Georgopoulos <alk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> open ($CHROOT)/usr/share/ldm/rc.d/X01-localapps
> find 2 "read" commands in lines 36 and 46
> and replace them with "read -r" so that it doesn't interpret the
> backslashes.
>
> I.e.:
> IFS=':' read -r LDM_USERNAME dummy pw_uid pw_gid pw_gecos LDM_HOME
> pw_shell <<EOF
> and:
> while IFS=':' read -r gr_name dummy gr_gid dummy; do
>
> If that works, file a bug report in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ltsp/ so
> that I can commit the fix.
>
> Cheers,
> Alkis Georgopoulos
> LTSP developer
>
>
> On 22/12/2016 05:27 μμ, John Halfpenny wrote:
> > Hi Everyone
> >
> > We've been running LTSP for a while now on Ubuntu 14.04, and I'm in the
> > process of upgrading to 16.04.
> >
> > Our server connects to Windows using kerberos, samba and nslcd to map
> > attributes to their unix counterparts. This works well, and allows me to
> > login to a client using Windows credentials and map the drive locally.
> >
> > However, on Ub1404, to map the home directory I run a script which uses
> > getent, and the returned string is, e.g. \\server\share\share\username
> >
> > But on Ub1604, getent does not return this properly, but instead removes
> > the slashes, e.g. \servershareshareusername
> >
> > If I run getent on the LTSP server, it works, but not on the client.
> >
> > I've never seen this before. When I strace getent from the client, it
> > doesn't even seem to query nsswitch, whereas it does from the server.
> >
> > e.g. from client:
> >
> > $ strace -e open getent passwd testac
> > open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
> > open("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
> > open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
> > testac:x:2660:513:tes...@domain.ac.uk
> > <mailto:testac%3ax%3a2660%3a513%3ates...@domain.ac.uk>,,
> ,\servershareshareusername:/opt/ltsphome/testac:/bin/bash
> > +++ exited with 0 +++
> >
> > But from the server it seems more comprehensive:
> >
> > $ strace -e open getent passwd testac
> > open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
> > open("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
> > open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
> > open("/etc/nsswitch.conf", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
> > open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
> > open("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_files.so.2", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
> > open("/etc/passwd&
> > quot;, O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
> > open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
> > open("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_ldap.so.2", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
> > testac:x:2660:513:tes...@domain.ac.uk
> > <mailto:testac%3ax%3a2660%3a513%3ates...@domain.ac.uk>,,
> ,\\server\share\share\username:/opt/ltsphome/testac:/bin/bash
> > +++ exited with 0 +++
> >
> > I know authentication can be one of those tricky subjects, but I don't
> > personally feel that this is the issue here, whereas the weird behaviour
> > of getent is. If anyone has any clues or pointers I'd be very grateful,
> > everything else seems to be working fine.
> >
> > Best Wishes
> > John
> >
>
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