pdbedit fails to export user data
Issue
- pdbedit fails to export user data. Please see below.
# pdbedit -e smbpasswd:/root/smb-users.backup build_sam_pass: Failing attempt to store user with non-uid based user RID. smbpasswd_update_sam_account: build_smb_pass failed! Importing account for root...failed - According to the source code of samba, pdbedit appears to fail when the value of RID is an odd number. Please see below.
source3/passdb/passdb.c --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 565 bool algorithmic_pdb_rid_is_user(uint32 rid) 566 { 567 if ( rid_is_well_known(rid) ) { 568 /* 569 * The only well known user RIDs are DOMAIN_USER_RID_ADMIN 570 * and DOMAIN_USER_RID_GUEST. 571 */ 572 if(rid == DOMAIN_USER_RID_ADMIN || rid == DOMAIN_USER_RID_GUEST) 573 return True; 574 } else if((rid & RID_TYPE_MASK) == USER_RID_TYPE) { /* When rid is an odd number, False is returned. */ 575 return True; 576 } 577 return False; 578 } --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Could you please let us know why pdbedit processes the RID like that? If that behavior is due to a bug, could you fix it?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- samba-3.5.4-68.el6
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