Bug 55175

Summary:	Valid Users for shares not working with group names
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Nitin Dahyabhai <nitind>
Component:	samba	Assignee:	Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Nitin Dahyabhai 2001-10-26 16:56:58 UTC

Description of problem:
Under Red Hat 7.0, I had a shared user home directory accessable by
members of the "users" group:
  valid users = @users
which no longer works under 7.2.  No one in that group
is allowed in unless listed by name.  I have tried using
"+users" as the group list is defined locally, but that
failed as well.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
samba-2.2.1a-4


How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a test user account (I used "ivj").
2. Append this share definition to /etc/samba/smb.conf:
[ivj]
   path = /home/ivj
   valid users = @users
   browseable = yes
   public = no
   writable = yes
   printable = no
   create mask = 0755
   force user = ivj
   force group = ivj

3. Connect to that share using a user ID other than "ivj" from the
"users" group.


Actual Results:  Every attempt I make from my Windows NT and Windows 2000
machines fail until my userid is specifically listed (and this is the ONLY
change I make):
  valid users = ivj, nitin

Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-10-31 17:14:40 UTC

I tested both "@groupname" for NIS groups and "+groupname" for local groups, and
they work great. I even added "force user" and "force group", and it still works.