[Bug 292791] Re: silent login/gdm failures and sudo segfaults with smbpasswd enabled

[Steve Langasek]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 01:18:53PM -0000, Thierry Carrez wrote:

> It looks related to bug 303458 (and his evil duplicate bug 302092)
> The problem we solved was bug 260687 (libpam-smbpass segfault caused by
> missing /var/lib/samba), but there seem to be a case of /var/lib/samba/
> contents corruption triggering a similar segfault.

What's the basis for claiming that there's a corruption problem?  I haven't
seen tdb corruption in samba for many years.

The backtrace in this bug isn't a corruption issue at all; the
get_global_sam_sid() call panics if called by a process that can't create or
read /var/lib/samba/secrets.tdb.  The trick is that libpam-smbpass isn't
supposed to call get_global_sam_sid() - so something has changed here.

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silent login/gdm failures and sudo segfaults with smbpasswd enabled
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/292791
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