[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#495653: Bug#495653: samba: libc free()crash in smbd

[Uwe Schindler]

> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 06:41:46PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > Then I started samba with this and tried connecting to my home
> > directory (after "smbpasswd bubulle"):
> 
> Before running 'smbpasswd', did you also set 'lanman auth = yes' in the
> smb.conf?
> 
> If not, your smbpasswd entry only has an NTLM password hash, it doesn't
> have
> a LanMan password hash; so connecting to samba in share security mode will
> not be possible.
> 
> The server hang is a bug anyway, but it may be that it only happens in a
> server misconfiguration.
> 
> Perhaps we should patch param/loadparm.c to not allow security=share
> without
> lanman auth = yes?

Yes, it is a bug. When connecting with Windows XP you cannot choose
authentication scheme.

Adding:
	lanman auth = yes
does crash, too! The above configuration always worked with prior samba
versions. And indeed, setting security to "user", stops the bug, but is not
the behaviour, I want.

Uwe