On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:44:47PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Control: tags -1 moreinfo > > Hi Steve, > > > For the benefit of anyone else who got stuck: I ran "smbpasswd -a" to > > create > > each user/passwd in the new password database. > > What do you mean by "new password database"? The tdbsam backend has been > the default backend for years, and this hasn't changed in 4.0. The file has > moved location on the filesystem, but the maintainer scripts take care of > moving the file on upgrade. Were you using a non-default configuration for > your samba password handling previously?
Good question. Perhaps I was. I set it up so long ago, I can't
remember what I did but I do know that it has generally worked across
upgrades over the years. But not this one.
The old password file was /etc/samba/smbpasswd which seems to be ASCII while
the new one is in /var/lib:
steve@riemann{~}sudo file /etc/samba/smbpasswd /var/lib/samba/passdb.tdb
/etc/samba/smbpasswd: ASCII text
/var/lib/samba/passdb.tdb: TDB database version 6, little-endian hash size 131
bytes
If it helps: I had been using SWAT to configure samba.
Regards,
-Steve
P.S. I was a little confused when swat disappeared on upgrade and had to
resort to google.
A note in NEWS.Debian would have been appreciated. Is there a replacement for
it?
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