[Bug 226387] Merge Review: samba

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Summary: Merge Review: samba


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=226387





------- Additional Comments From ssorce at redhat.com  2007-03-30 08:59 EST -------
(In reply to comment #9)
> Whether it could be better to put migration stuff into system init script(s) ?
> In general, consider that you are upstream, therefore you provide only tarball
> (not rpm or deb package), and you have to do some migration things for new
> version...

This is not something that happened inside samba it is a pure packaging problem
RH instroduce a long time ago and I am trying to fix now for better FHS compliance.
 
[..]

No, I need to make sure I do the migration when samba is stopped but _before_
smbd is restarted with condrestart.

> Since /etc/samba/smbpasswd is a text file very similar to system /etc/passwd,
> maybe better to save it under /etc/samba/ dir, not move too dip under
> /var/lib/samba/private. (in other words, why /etc/passwd is not moved under,
> say, /var/lib/security/secrets/ ? ).

While smbpasswd is a text file it is not intended to be manually manipulated, so
it goes with all other passdb backend files (like passdb.tdb which are binary).

smbpasswd is deprecated anyway, I am going to change the default smb.conf file
to use tdbsam as backend so that new installations stop using smbpasswd.
 



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