Samba Server

**johnrw** · 10-03-2008, 10:22 PM

Originally Posted by MAiN_PRoToCoL

chip.ling: yup it worked just like the FAQ page said. it just sucks i gotta go through all that and it makes the GUI samba in 5.3.1 useless.

QuadriplegicMonkey: were both on the same page. so where can I bitch about this bug????????

I would think http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Bugs/5.3.1DVD would be where this would go... but it seems to be locked.

It has been a while since I looked at the script but... in /usr/sbin/sambastart on line 58 is
while grep -q '^knoppix:1000:XXXXX' /etc/samba/smbpasswd

then a look inside /etc/samba/smbpasswd after a successfull password change...
it seems my password was saved in the second password field...
knoppix:1000:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:NEWPA SSWORDCODESTOREDHERE00:[...

and so the infinite loop... even though smbpasswd had made the change successfully.
But also there is this extra $FORCE variable that can be present in a cmdline parm.
Don't know what it's there for. Here is the section:

Code:

/usr/sbin/sambastart

     51
     52 FORCE=false
     53 FORCEEXPORT=false
     54 echo "$@" | grep force && FORCE=true
     55 echo "$@" | grep export && FORCEEXPORT=true
     56
     57 #loop while password is not set
     58 while grep -q '^knoppix:1000:XXXXX' /etc/samba/smbpasswd || $FORCE ; do
     59         rm -f "$TMP"
     60         $DIALOG --passwordbox "$MESSAGE1" 0 0 2>"$TMP" || break
     61         PASSWORD1="$(<$TMP)"
     62         rm -f "$TMP"
     63         $DIALOG --passwordbox "$MESSAGE2" 0 0 2>"$TMP" || break
     64         PASSWORD2="$(<$TMP)"
     65         rm -f "$TMP"
     66         if [ "$PASSWORD1" == "$PASSWORD2" ] ; then
     67                 #set samba password
     68                 echo -e "$PASSWORD1\n$PASSWORD1" | smbpasswd -a knoppix -s
     69         else
     70                 $DIALOG --msgbox "$MESSAGE3" 0 0
     71         fi
     72         #force is only executed once
     73         FORCE=false
     74 done
     75

It should probably just test the result of the command executed...
68 echo -e "$PASSWORD1\n$PASSWORD1" | smbpasswd -a knoppix -s
if [ $? == 0 ] ; then
break
fi

then a continous looping would indicate something is wrong...

So how come the wiki is locked?

**Harry Kuhman** · 10-03-2008, 10:44 PM

Originally Posted by johnrw

.....So how come the wiki is locked?

Please take this up with Eadz. I've been swampped with fighting spammers in the forums. Some past changes in the wiki software made it difficult for someone with moderator privileges to effectively fight spam there, and Eadz just yesterday mentioned to me that he had been fighting a lot of wiki spammers himself. It might be something that he did in reaction to wiki spammers, but it seems self defeating to have a wiki if legitimate users can't contribute to it.

I do expect that he will want to know that there is an issue here, and as he may not catch the post in these forums I suggest sending him a private message.

**johnrw** · 10-04-2008, 04:02 AM

I don't mind locked wikis. The enemies of Open Source and of the little people in general and their freedoms have deep pockets.
If the burden is getting too much for you, the dedicated staffers, then by all means... lock it down!

I would just put a post somewhere regarding..., "this is how to add to the wiki", even if it has to be by emailing an admin desired content.
Drastic... but I don't think there is so much activity on the wiki... that it would be that hard.
Probably less of an effort involved than fighting the spammers.

Is there a way to put a maximum amount of posts for newly approved members?
Well without knowing more about the tactical side of how they get in, what they do once in, I am just guessing.

Harry, you can edit forum posts, right?
How about we insert a Special Tag... on legitimate bug reports in the forums?
*** BUG KNOPPIX531DVD FIXSUGGESTED*** or something?

The benifits would be immense if a simple site search could yield a set of links straight to bug reporting content.
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.knoppix.net+BUG
is a little vague... but keywords could order that up a little.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...+KNOPPIX531DVD
This link should show exactly one hit... in a while...