[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#726472: share passwords not working after upgrade from samba3

[Ivo De Decker]

Hi Steve,

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 10:16:31AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Ok.  I think we need to undo this /var/lib/samba/private nonsense.  It is a
> pointless and imperfect migration (as shown by this bug report), and the
> only rationale upstream ever gave for keeping these files in a separate
> "private" directory is some stupid and ancient target OS that couldn't
> properly set per-file permissions.  Debian users have been using
> /var/lib/samba exclusively for the better part of a decade; migrating to
> this private/ directory adds no value for our users.

The samba4 packages use /var/lib/samba/private, so upgrading from those (and
from the earlier samba 4.0.x packages in experimental and unstable) would need
some work. Obviously this would impact a much smaller group of users than the
upgrade from samba 3.6 to 4.0.

On the other hand, I also think we should at least consider the upstream
request to avoid having this change reverted.


As this won't be sorted out in the next few days, and I want to get the other
improvements into unstable, I added a check in postinst which should at least
abort instead of silently using the wrong data. I intend to upload this fairly
soon. This change doesn't preclude a move either way. Obviously, this also
doesn't fix this bug.

Cheers,

Ivo