Description of problem: When migrating from /etc/passwd to a smbpasswd file using mksmbpasswd.sh, it places the user description as the last slot on each line. When performing other actions such as enabling/disabling, changing passwords, etc. the values are left untouched. When you delete a user using the -x <username> switch, it removes the user description from each line. You can see this by viewing the smbpasswd file in a text editor. Funny though if you do a pdbedit -v <username> it still shows the desc so it must be pulling it from /etc/passwd if the desc field in smbpasswd is blank. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): samba-3.0.2-4.3E
This seem to be a very old bug, but I spotted it only today. If mksmbpasswd.sh does that, it is wrong, the smbpasswd file syntax has no place for the user description.
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