Dear All,
I have installed the current version of Slackware Linux which includes
samba-2.2.8a. My previous system
had samba-2.0.7 with the utmp patch by David Lee applied. The original/patched
utmp support had a 'utmp
hostname' parameter to select between logging by hostname or netbios name.
This very useful parameter is
missing from 2.2.8a. IMHO this is a real pity. Is this an oversight or was there
a reason for this?
Even worse, 2.2.8a actually logs by IP address rather than hostname despite the
relevant variable in
smbd/utmp.c being 'hostname'. My machine is running bind so I presume
this is intentional? If so it seems
a bit ugly -- I mean eg. telnet connections are logged in utmp/wtmp by hostname
if one exists.
One other thing: My old system ran with 'security = share' and the new
one I've configured with 'security
= user'. I found (after much initial puzzlement) that this was necessary on
2.2.8a to get the utmp
logging to work! I have a 'username map' file with entries like;
!unixuser1 = Windows user1
!unixuser2 = Windows user2
myguest = *
where myguest is a real user (with passwd & smbpasswd) passwords. I have
some 'guest ok' plus 'guest
only' shares which should be accessible to everyone -- eg. public access
printer and readonly /pub
directory.
My 'objection' is that utmp/wtmp logs connections to these public shares
as being from user myguest,
despite the remote PC user not knowing/specifying the password for myguest. I
have a 'guest account nobody' global record in smb.conf where the nobody
user is password-less. Surely utmp/wtmp should log
such connections as coming from nobody (as the patched 2.0.7 + 'security =
share' system does). Again,
this seems misleading and undesirable.
I'm tempted to try back-porting the 'utmp directory' feature into
2.2.8a -- Are there any pitfalls
I should be aware of?
Thanks
Tom Crane
