Bug 12790 - samba-tool missing parameters: error in message ( to enable NIS features)
Summary: samba-tool missing parameters: error in message ( to enable NIS features)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Samba 4.1 and newer
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Tools (show other bugs)
Version: 4.6.3
Hardware: All All
: P5 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Andrew Bartlett
QA Contact: Samba QA Contact
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Reported: 2017-05-12 15:31 UTC by Luc Lalonde
Modified: 2025-03-19 23:07 UTC (History)
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Patch to correct the error message (652 bytes, patch)
2017-05-12 15:31 UTC, Luc Lalonde 		no flags Details
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Description Luc Lalonde 2017-05-12 15:31:45 UTC 
Created attachment 13215 [details]
Patch to correct the error message

The instructions in the error message are wrong.

Here's what you get when you try to enable NIS features:

ERROR: Missing parameters. To enable NIS features, the following options have to be given: --nis-domain=, --uidNumber=, --login-shell=, --unix-home=, --gid-number= Operation cancelled.

The patch corrects 'uidNumber' to 'uid-number':

ERROR: Missing parameters. To enable NIS features, the following options have to be given: --nis-domain=, --uid-number=, --login-shell=, --unix-home=, --gid-number= Operation cancelled.
Comment 1 Douglas Bagnall 2025-03-01 02:17:48 UTC 
This ended up being fixed in 8d0b8178dd143a02c47c514e2959efb9f54ca936 (September 2024, ends up in 4.22+).

I won't close this just yet in case somebody cries out for a backport.