samba - Feb 2002 - is there a limit to the length of validusers= lines (i.e over 102 4 bytes)

Dear All

We've noticed that old (1.9.18x) versions of samba do not like very long (
over 1020 ish bytes ) valid user= lines.  I assume that a 1k buffer is
overrun.  Yes, we have that many users for some shares.

What is the limit in more recent samba's (2.2.x) - I know this is in the
source - so if someone could point me in the right direction I'll go look (I
am not a great C coder:-).

Thanks

Greg Cope


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Create a group and put the users in that group. Then valid users @groupname
works fine.

Greg_Cope@sandwich.pfizer.com wrote:
> 
> Dear All
> 
> We've noticed that old (1.9.18x) versions of samba do not like very
long (
> over 1020 ish bytes ) valid user= lines.  I assume that a 1k buffer is
> overrun.  Yes, we have that many users for some shares.
> 
> What is the limit in more recent samba's (2.2.x) - I know this is in
the
> source - so if someone could point me in the right direction I'll go
look (I
> am not a great C coder:-).
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Greg Cope
> 
> PFIZER GLOBAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
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--On Thursday, February 28, 2002 3:17 PM +0000 
Greg_Cope@sandwich.pfizer.com wrote:
> We've noticed that old (1.9.18x) versions of samba do not like very
long (
> over 1020 ish bytes ) valid user= lines.  I assume that a 1k buffer is
> overrun.  Yes, we have that many users for some shares.
Why not make them all members of their own group (just for that share) in 
your /etc/group file, and only have to list one name on the line in your 
smb.conf?

- john

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 Greg_Cope@sandwich.pfizer.com wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> We've noticed that old (1.9.18x) versions of samba do not like very
long (
> over 1020 ish bytes ) valid user= lines.  I assume that a 1k buffer is
> overrun.  Yes, we have that many users for some shares.
> 
> What is the limit in more recent samba's (2.2.x) - I know this is in
the
> source - so if someone could point me in the right direction I'll go
look (I
> am not a great C coder:-).
Same. We are hoping to fix this limitation in 3.0.