smbldap-useradd: fails to set several sambaXXX attributes

[Paul Stoever]

The smbldap-useradd tool called with option -a should add a samba account to the LDAP with either the attributes mentioned below provided from command line or from config script. The script creates the account, but fails to add the attributes for sambaHomeDrive, sambaHomePath, sambaProfilePath, sambaLogonScript, sambaPrimaryGroupSID to the LDAP entry.

Ubuntu release: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (server, amd64)
Version of tools: 0.9.7-1ubuntu1

However, I could trace the problem to a line in the perl file. A patch remedying the problem is attached.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Tony Maro (tonymaro)]

I found other issues with the current version after updating. For me every user gets assigned the domain SID from the server's local SID in the smbldap.conf file. I ended up having to force the domain's sid into that config field instead of the local sid. It just wouldn't look up the domain sid given the domain name no matter what. Also, there was a reference to a non-existent file where they'd added an extension that shouldn't exist to the passwd tool. It's like someone opened these scripts and just made random changes in a few places for no apparent reason.

I don't often have to create new users, so I didn't realize this was a problem after I updated the server until today. It's disappointing that the team in charge of this would push out a LTS release with such a buggy enterprise control tool.

@ Paul, thanks for the patch, it saved me a huge headache! This along with three other fixes I had to make to the scripts finally got me running again.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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