Samba Users - A Slew of Problems

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mallen324

Anytime I have a request to have a user added to access our server, I get a headache. It shouldn't be that tough, but I always have problems. I tried to add a user, "ysingh", that account didn't work. Okay, I'll delete the account :

Code: 
$ sudo rmuser ysingh 
Matching password entry:

ysingh:*:1009:513::0:0:System User:/home/ysingh:/bin/sh

Is this the entry you wish to remove? y
Remove user's home directory (/home/ysingh)? y
Removing user (ysingh): home passwdpw: user 'ysingh' does not exist: No such file or directory
.

Code: 
$ sudo pdbedit -x ysingh
smbldap_search_domain_info: Searching for:[(&(objectClass=sambaDomain)(sambaDomainName=SPRINGFIELD))]
smbldap_open_connection: connection opened
ldap_connect_system: successful connection to the LDAP server
user ysingh does not exist in the passdb

Should be good right? NO:

Code: 
$ id ysingh
uid=1009(ysingh) gid=513(Domain Users) groups=513(Domain Users)

Not sure how to go about deleting this guy now.

In my next post I'll show my process to try and add an account.
 
What version of Samba? What version of FreeBSD?

Keep in mind that the Unix account (the one in /etc/passwd) and the Samba account (created with pdbedit) are separate. Deleting the samba account does NOT delete the unix account.
 
Sorry, my post was pretty useless without posting those pieces of info.

Samba 3.4
FreeBSD 8.1

I know they are separate, I just wanted to show I tried deleting ysingh both ways.
 
Ok, So I was able to add no problem this time. Im goin to sound crazy, but I followed the same process - "sudo adduser". This time it worked, however it had to be ysingh01 since I now got some ghost accounts I don't know how to delete (singh, ysingh, ysingh1). Any ideas?
 
what does the following command return:

Code: 
pdbedit -L


what does the following command return:

Code: 
cat /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1 | grep -v \#

In one of these commands you will see your ghost accounts.

if with pdbedit you find them, then you need to remove them with pdbedit.


regards,
Johan Hendriks
 
Sylhouette - Neither of those commands showed my ghost accounts. Thanks for the suggestion though.

I have found this in the smb.conf file:

Code: 
  add user script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-useradd -m %u

  add group script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-groupadd -p %g

  add machine script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-useradd -w %u

  delete user script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-userdel %u

  delete user from group script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-groupmod -x %u %g

  delete group script = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-groupdel %g

Ok, so running smbldap-userdel 'username' did delete the ghost account! Sweet!

Now I got a problem with groups and group permissions, but I'll make a new thread.

Thank you all for helping me through this!
 
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