Feature changed by: Klaus Kämpf (kwk) Feature #305535, revision 28 Title: [webyast] Samba module openSUSE-11.2: Rejected by Christoph Thiel (cthiel1) reject date: 2009-06-05 15:10:01 reject reason: Missing details. Priority Requester: Important - openSUSE-11.3: Evaluation + openSUSE-11.3: Rejected by (kwk) + reject date: 2010-03-03 11:43:38 + reject reason: Rejected on advise of a very experienced project + manageer Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Important Requested by: James McDonough (jmcdough) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Original request stated in bugzilla: At the moment, it has to be decided if a user has an samba account can only be decided when the account is created. If an samba account shall be added later for a user, this is not possible with the Yast UsersPluginSamba, as this requires changing the password (or setting the same password again). IMHO, this restriction is to strict. The following should be possible: * Activate the samba account for the user : this should add the sambaSamAccount objectClass to the user, : at least set the user sid, optionally the group sid : leave the password empty * The user can then later on change/reset his password with "passwd" : The user has a valid posixAccount, which allows him to authenticate : himself against LDAP. : if there is an LDAP ACL "access to attrs=sambaNTPassword by self write", : the user is able to set his samba password even without an preexisting : samba password Additional comment from bugzilla The above described scenario is just one corner case where having no sambaNTPassword/sambaLMPassword could workout. Unfortunately: * Or samba configuration as created by YaST by default disallows write access to the samba*Password attributes, IIRC. * The user might be a pure Windows User, so he can't set his initial samba password using his Linux/Unix Account. References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444603 Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Many customers report difficulties with various areas of samba yast administration, both with new features requested and layout of current ones. Discussion: #1: Christoph Thiel (cthiel1) (2009-05-28 15:34:16) James, do you have more details yet? Otherwise, we'll have to reject it for openSUSE 11.2 right away. #2: Wyatt Gosling (beachchairs) (2009-06-08 21:40:29) As someone who just spent a day configuring Samba, I support this. The Samba module is a bit advanced, but my main problem was I just didn't know I had to allow Samba in the firewall. I think the module should do something about this. Perhaps when you hit Ok you get a prompt allong the lines of "You have enabled Samba, but the Firewall is set to block Samba. Would you like to change the Firewall to allow Samba?" Still I would like to see a simpler module. Perhaps one that has a just a few options (then takes a reasonable stab at the rest). Maybe have a global "Enable Folder and Printer Sharing" toggle, and a toggle to enable password protection (and set the password!). Then have "Enable Printer Sharing", "Enable Folder Sharing" subcategories. I don't have any interest in printer sharing, so I don't know if any sub-options would be applicable or not. For folder sharing, you would need a list of directories to share. Not much else needs to be presented to the user IMO. Also have it so when you use the KDE Item Properties Panel (and the Gnome equivelent), it is pre-setup to allow users to add shares without root priveleges. #7: Ralph Ulrich (ulenrich) (2009-08-21 16:57:02) Would be great to see the module yast-samba as an input/substitute module for kde-systemsettings-advanced-samba #9: Klaus Kämpf (kwk) (2009-08-25 09:45:45) Out of scope for openSUSE 11.2 or SLE11 SP1. To be revisited for openSUSE 11.3 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305535