Re: [Samba] Samba keeps resetting smbpasswd permissions

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 02:19:02PM +0200, Martin v. Wittich wrote:
> Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:58:12AM +0200, Martin v. Wittich wrote:
> >> Is there a way to stop Samba from modifying the smbpasswd permissions? I
> >> already googled and looked through the Samba manpages, but I can't
> >> really find a solution.
> >
> > There is none, sorry.
>
> Oh, I see... I've looked into the Samba source.
> source/passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c, in function startsmbfilepwent from line 317:
>
> /* Make sure it is only rw by the owner */
> #ifdef HAVE_FCHMOD
> if(fchmod(fileno(fp), S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR) == -1) {
> #else
> if(chmod(pfile, S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR) == -1) {
> #endif
> DEBUG(0, ("startsmbfilepwent_internal: failed to set 0600
> permissions on password file %s. \
> Error was %s\n.", pfile, strerror(errno) ));
> pw_file_unlock(fileno(fp), lock_depth);
> fclose(fp);
> return NULL;
> }
>
> Are there any plans to remove that code or at least make in
> configurable? For example, there could be options like this in the
> smb.conf file:
>
> smb passwd owner = root
> smb passwd group = freerad
> smb passwd mode = 640

That's a little too heavyweight for what we need really. No one
ever complained about it before :-). I'd accept a patch to disable
that code with an option.

Jeremy.
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