reopen 444781 thanks
Am Sonntag, den 30.09.2007, 19:58 -0700 schrieb Steve Langasek: > On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 10:54:48PM +0000, Michael Schmitt wrote: > > Package: samba > > Version: 3.0.24-6etch4 > > Severity: minor > > > Hi folks, > > > during install all accounts from /etc/passwd are added to the samba > > database, why? > > So that SAM entries are subsequently available for all users on the system > without further administrator action, regardless of whether these are > accounts that would be granted password access to samba. > > > Is there any deeper sense behind this that I just don't understand? I > > think this is not intentional and therefore I report this as a bug. > > No, it is deliberate; but thank you for taking the time to report this. sorry that I think I have to reopen this bug, but think of this: One sets up "nt4 user manager for domains" to ease administration for non unix guys, then another one sees "Debian-exim", "fetchmail", "roundup", thinks a second, knows that it does not make sense, deletes these accounts with "nt4 usermanager for domains" and goes on... the next day angry and very annoyed folks in that company realise that mail and the local issue tracking system is broken. In a perfect world this would never happen and I know there are very sensible arguments to justify the current behaviour of the samba package in this regard... BUT this is not a perfect world, sometimes users and admins are dumb and "you need to know what you do!" seems to be very common on the unix side, but on the windows side? This is not a prejudice, I've seen such things in real-life! And of course another thing... I had a discussion about this with two costomers who wanted a low cost domain controller with the ability to manage accounts from a windows client (without putty *g*)... in short words it was like "What are these accounts for? It confuses/annoys me!" Sure, no real problem deleting those accounts from the samba user database without touching the unix groups... but they could be not added at the first place too, don't you think? As a suggestion, maybe during install debconf should ask what accounts to be added to the samba db, or only accounts with uid between 1000 and $something should be added by default. I hope you understand my apprehension a bit. I thought about changeing it to a wishlist bug, but then again it may break a system at a very low level very easily... Your thoughts on this? regards Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
