Package: samba Version: 3.0.28-2 Severity: normal Hi,
I've now spent a very frustrating amount of time[1] trying to diagnose a failure to add a machine to a domain. The problem is that root is marked is an 'invalid user', which does not allow it add machines. I am at a loss to understand why root is marked as an 'invalid user' in the default shipped configuration. It does not make things any more secure. It does cause extra work (everyone who wants root to be valid has to modify the configuration; everyone who wants to some other user must modify things; everyone who want privileges has to modify the configuration) -- every class of user has to modify the configuration, for standlone servers they are negatively nor positively impacted by having "invalid user = root" in the configuration. Please remove "invalid users = root" from the default configuration. Thanks, Anand [1]: Joining a domain is such an uncommon operation, (for me, every 5 - 10 months) that I tend to forget what the fix is/was. Invariably I'm on a new machine and things are failing. I've wasted at least 30 hours of my life debugging this misconfiguration. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages samba depends on: ii adduser 3.105 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.18 Debian configuration management sy ii libacl1 2.2.45-1 Access control list shared library ii libattr1 1:2.4.39-1 Extended attribute shared library ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcomerr2 1.40.4-1 common error description library ii libcupsys2 1.3.5-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libgnutls13 2.0.4-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libldap2 2.1.30.dfsg-13.5 OpenLDAP libraries ii libpam-modules 0.99.7.1-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam-runtime 0.99.7.1-5 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 0.99.7.1-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii logrotate 3.7.1-3 Log rotation utility ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii procps 1:3.2.7-5 /proc file system utilities ii samba-common 3.0.28-2 Samba common files used by both th ii update-inetd 4.27-0.6 inetd.conf updater ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-10 compression library - runtime samba recommends no packages. -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
