[Pkg-samba-maint] DO NOT REPLY [Bug 3727] smbpasswd fails with assertion failure when -L is used by a non root user

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https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3727





------- Comment #1 from vorlon at debian.org  2007-11-13 18:40 CST -------
Created an attachment (id=2967)
 --> (https://bugzilla.samba.org/attachment.cgi?id=2967&action=view)
avoid get_global_sam_sid panic in client tools

Here is a patch which updates the client software (pam_smbpass and smbclient)
to detect non-root invocations that require get_global_sam_sid() and bypass
them with an error message as appropriate, to avoid triggering an smb_panic
where this is foreseeable and avoidable.  This is particularly important in the
case of pam_smbpass, where a smb_panic() will terminate the calling application
(e.g., a screensaver).

A client-specific check is preferable over changing the error handling in
get_global_sam_sid() because the server can always rely on this operation being
run as root and there is a lack of error handling in various callers of the
function, so smb_panic() is still appropriate for the general case.


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